It’s amazing what you can do with a few clicks of a mouse. With just some slight movements of your wrist and a connection to the internet, you can send a funny cat video to your favorite aunt….or bring down an entire government. Prolific documentarian Alex Gibney goes to the dark side of the web in the upcoming “Zero Days,” and today we have an exclusive clip looking at the intrigue in his latest film.
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While cyberwar might seem like a dated term from the 1990s, it’s very much a real and ongoing concern, with countries waging battles with bits and bytes instead of bullets, with major stakes — infrastructure, state secrets — on the line. And this clip shows how high-tech methods and old-time spycraft come together to create a 21st-century battleground. Here’s the official synopsis for the film:
Alex Gibney’s ZERO DAYS is a documentary thriller about the world of cyberwar. For the first time, the film tells the complete story of Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware (known as a “worm” for its ability to burrow from computer to computer on its own) that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target. ZERO DAYS is the most comprehensive accounting to date of how a clandestine mission hatched by two allies with clashing agendas opened forever the Pandora’s Box of cyberwarfare. Beyond the technical aspects of the story, ZERO DAYS reveals a web of intrigue involving the CIA, the US Military’s new cyber command, Israel’s Mossad and Operations that include both espionage and covert assassinations but also a new generation of cyberweapons whose destructive power is matched only by Nuclear War.
“Zero Days” opens in theaters, on Demand, on Amazon Video and on iTunes on July 8th.