This is the story of Phoenix and Electron – two Australian teenagers who work together trying to break into some of the world’s most classified and supposedly secure computer systems. They soon attract the attention of the US Secret Service and the FBI, who consider them a great threat. In the Realm of the Hackers takes us headlong into the clandestine, risky but intoxicating world of the computer underground to uncover not only how the hackers did it but why.