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The Documentary Podcast

Accused of hacking the Pentagon

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Seven years ago in a sleepy English village a doorbell rang. In that moment, Lauri Love’s life changed completely. Lauri was arrested at the door. He was accused of hacking into US government websites and sharing employee data as part of an Anonymous protest. He faced extradition and 99 years in US jail. That extradition request was denied seven years ago, but the allegation against him still stands. Producer Alice Homewood first met Lauri Love through friends in 2013. Alice tries to understand how her gentle friend came to be accused of one of the biggest cyber-crimes in history.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to episode four of Rule Breakers, a BBC World Service Sundance

0:10.4

Institute Collaboration where we invite filmmakers to create audio

0:14.7

documentary about people doing things their own ways. I am Shereen Neshot, an

0:21.9

Iranian-born visual artist and filmmaker living in the United States.

0:29.0

You don't have to break the law, to break the rules, But sometimes everything breaks and life is never the same again.

0:37.0

This is what happened to Lorry Love, a British computer hacker accused of hacking the Pentagon.

0:45.0

Strap yourselves in. Larry worked out that you can carry big speakers around with a push trolley and

0:58.1

we just be walking down the road but we'd be liked. A British man accused of hacking into US federal computer systems.

1:08.0

To his supporters, he's a hero.

1:10.0

He's just not got a bad bone in his body.

1:12.0

It kind of breaks my heart.

1:14.0

But the US government says that Lowry Love is a dangerous criminal.

1:18.0

When Lowry says he will kill himself,

1:20.0

I believe him to be stating something he intends to do.

1:23.0

I first met Lowry through my flatmate Pete in 2013.

1:34.0

Lowry would sleep on our sofa, arriving with a stack of speakers, a laptop and not much else.

1:39.0

We'd have big parties and he would set up the music.

1:42.0

I still feel bad for our neighbors.

1:46.9

His pride and joy was his techno trolley. His peat reminiscing about it.

1:50.6

Yeah, the techno trolley. I used to hate it sometimes. I would just be like

1:54.8

let's just go down and get some beer from the shop and he'd be like sweet yeah I'll get the

1:59.2

trolley ready. I was just like, come on look at us Larry.

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