Was the movie Hackers about this guy Kevin Poulsen? “On June 1, 1990, he took over all of the telephone lines for Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM, guaranteeing that he would be the 102nd caller and win the prize of a Porsche 944 S2.[2][3][4]
When the Federal Bureau of Investigation started pursuing Poulsen, he went underground as a fugitive. When he was featured on NBC’s Unsolved Mysteries, the show’s 1-800 telephone lines mysteriously crashed.[2][5]
He was arrested, sentenced to five years in a federal penitentiary, as well as banned from using computers or the internet for 3 years after his release.”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/
This movie is about hackers who are blamed for making a virus that will capsize 5 oil tankers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film)
The film follows a group of high school hackers and their involvement in a corporate extortion conspiracy. Made in the 1990s when the internet was unfamiliar to the general public, it reflects the ideals laid out in the Hacker Manifesto quoted in the film:
After the crackdown in the United States during 1989 and 1990, he decided to write a script about the subculture. For research, Moreu went to a meeting organized by the New York-based hacker magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. There, he met Phiber Optik, a.k.a. Mark Abene, a 22-year-old hacker who spent most of 1994 in prison on hacking charges.
If so the hackers movie may be very relevant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Poulsen
SecureDrop
Poulsen, Aaron Swartz, and James Dolan designed and developed SecureDrop, an open-source software platform for secure communication between journalists and sources. It was originally developed under the name DeadDrop.[12][13] After Swartz’s death Poulsen launched the first instance of the platform at The New Yorker, on 15 May 2013.[14] Poulsen later turned over development of SecureDrop to the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and joined the foundation’s technical advisory board.”
Dolan recently committed suicide (Dec.2017) and Swartz killed himself a couple of years ago.