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THURSDAY, OCT 1, 8:45PM
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
Post screening panel discussion
with Joshua Dratel.
DEEP WEB
(Dir. Alex Winter, USA, 86 min.)
This movie gives the inside story of one of the the most important and riveting
digital crime sagas of the century -- the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, the
convicted 30-year-old entrepreneur accused to be ‘Dread Pirate Roberts,’ creator
and operator of online black market Silk Road. The film explores how the
brightest minds and thought leaders behind the Deep Web are now caught in the
crosshairs of the battle for control of a future inextricably linked to technology,
with our digital rights hanging in the balance.
In addition to being the only film with exclusive access to the Ulbricht
family, DEEP WEB features the core architects of the Deep Web; anarchistic
cryptographers who developed the Deep Web’s tools for the military in the early
1990s; the dissident journalists and whistleblowers who immediately sought
refuge in this seemingly secure environment; and the figures behind the rise of
Silk Road, which combined the security of the Deep Web with the anonymity of
cryptocurrency.
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