Suelette Dreyfus

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German cover of Underground (2011)

Suelette Dreyfus is an Australian journalist and author. She is a media scholar at Melbourne University . Her research areas there include whistleblowing , computer security and hacking .

life and work

Suelette Dreyfus lived in the UK, USA and Australia. It acquired in 1987 a BA at New York's Barnard College of Columbia University , where she was awarded the Teichmann Prize for excellent and original writing, and in 1998 a doctorate in philosophy at Monash University . She has been a member of the Royal Society of Victoria since 2001 .

Dreyfus has worked as a court reporter for Australian newspapers such as The Age , the British Independent and the Australian radio program Late Night Live . Together with Julian Assange , she was involved in the development of the Rubberhose cryptography software at the end of the 1990s . In 2001 Dreyfus was co-producer of the episode Hackers of the documentary television series Frontline , which is broadcast by the American network PBS , and in 2003 of the Australian documentary "In the Realm of the Hackers" , which describes the two hackers "Electron" and "Phoenix" and is broadcast on Dreyfus' Book Underground is based.

Suelette Dreyfus does not disseminate any images in public that represent her identifiable. In the interview and in the final chapter of Underground , which was added in 2011 , she emphasizes the role of technological possibilities for monitoring the citizens of democratic states.

Underground

After Suelette Dreyfus came into contact with the Melbourne hacker and mailbox scene in 1994 , Underground was published in 1997 on the Australian, American and European hacker scene of the 1980s and 1990s, which Julian Assange researched with himself over the course of three years under the pseudonym "Mendax" as a member of the hacker group "International Subversives" . In 2001 the book, which sold 10,000 copies, was made freely available on the Internet and had 400,000 downloads in two years. After Assange became known worldwide as the driving force behind WikiLeaks , the book was republished in 2011, provided with an updated introduction and a final chapter and also translated into German. The cover of the German edition contains a QR code that leads to a video message from Julian Assange, with whom Suelette Dreyfus is still in contact and whose organization WikiLeaks supports her in terms of content.

Publications (selection)

  • Suelette Dreyfus: The quiet revolution . In: The UNESCO courier . No. 3 , 2001, p. 27-28 . Online version
  • Suelette Dreyfus: Organizational Culture and Organizational Impacts of Information Systems: A Review of the Empirical Literature . In: Australasia Conference on Information Systems (Conference Publication) . 2010.
  • Suelette Dreyfus, Julian Assange: Underground: Tales of hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier . Mandarin, Kew, Australia, 1997, ISBN 1-86330-595-5 . Online version
  • Suelette Dreyfus, Julian Assange: Underground: Tales of hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier . Random House, Australia 2011, ISBN 978-1-74275-202-0 .
  • Suelette Dreyfus, Julian Assange: Underground. The story of the early hacking elite. Factual novel . Haffmans & Tolkemitt, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942989-00-8 (Original title: Underground: Tales of hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier .).

German-language reviews of Underground

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b University of Melbourne, June 2006; Update March 2011. Retrieved May 17, 2011 .
  2. ^ Profile at: Curtis Brown, Literary and Talent Agency. Retrieved May 17, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Marcel Rosenbach , Holger Stark : Public enemy WikiLeaks. How a group of net activists challenge the most powerful nations in the world. P. 51f. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-421-04518-8 .
  4. ↑ Suelette Dreyfus: The Idiot Savants' Guide to Rubberhose. Archived from the original on August 13, 2010 ; accessed on May 17, 2011 (English).
  5. ↑ "Hackers" at IMDb.de. Retrieved May 17, 2011 .
  6. ^ Website of the episode "Hackers". Retrieved May 17, 2011 .
  7. ^ "In the Realm of the Hackers" at IMDb-de. Retrieved May 17, 2011 .
  8. ^ The Age on May 20, 2003: Breaking into The Realm. Retrieved May 17, 2011 .
  9. ↑ a b Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 31, 2011: In the underground with Assange. Interview with Suelette Dreyfus. Retrieved May 17, 2011 .
  10. ↑ a b Welt Online on April 4, 2011: "Assange has a high degree of self-confidence". Retrieved May 17, 2011 .
  11. ^ Suelette Dreyfus, Julian Assange: Underground. The story of the early hacking elite. Factual novel p. 565 ff. Haffmans & Tolkemitt, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942989-00-8 .
  12. ^ The Age on June 14, 2003: Vandals or activists? Retrieved May 17, 2011 .
  13. ^ The Sydney Morning Herald on April 10, 2010: International man of mystery. Retrieved May 17, 2011 .
  14. ↑ Berliner Zeitung on April 14, 2011: The source code of resistance. Retrieved May 17, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Dreyfus, Suelette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian journalist and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century