[ad_1] Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the Worldby Joseph Menn The internet as we know it today would not exist but for the Cult of the Dead Cow. The cDc is among America’s oldest and most venerated hacking collectives. They invented hackivism, helped develop Tor, forced Microsoft […]
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Beto O’Rourke and Cult of the Dead Cow
[ad_1] Beto O’Rourke’s secret membership in America’s oldest hacking groupJoseph Menn,Reuters Beto O’Rourke: Democratic presidential candidate and… member of a hacking group? Reuters reports the former Texas congressman once belonged to Cult of the Dead Cow, an influential group “jokingly named after an abandoned Texas slaughterhouse.” While there’s no evidence that O’Rourke really got his […]
Beto O’Rourke was a member of hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow
[ad_1] O’Rourke came to CDC in the 1980s when he started using bulletin board systems (early versions of forums and message boards) to communicate with others. He operated his own board, called TacoLand, where he discussed punk rock music. He also browsed other boards to find cracked video games. That’s where he met Kevin Wheeler, […]