

Does privacy still exist in 2019? In less than a generation, the internet has become a mass surveillance machine based on one simple mindset: If it's free, you're the product. Our information is captured, stored and made accessible to corporations and governments across the world. To the hacker community, Big Brother is real and only a technological battle can defeat him.
Direction
Sheldon captures hacker culture without sanitizing its chaos.
Production
Rare access to underground figures who usually avoid cameras.

Director
Alexandre Sheldon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Richard Stallman refused to use the conference's WiFi and brought his own Libreboot laptop.
HAK_MTL captures the last pre-pandemic hacker conference era when physical meetups still mattered.