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Beto O'Rourke's Secret Membership in America's Oldest Hacking Group (reuters.com)
One thing you might not know about Beto O'Rourke, the former Texas congressman who just entered the race for president is that while a teenager, O'Rourke acknowledged in an exclusive interview to Reuters, he belonged to the oldest group of computer hackers in U.S. history. From the report: The hugely influential Cult of the Dead Cow, jokingly named after an abandoned Texas slaughterhouse, is notorious for releasing tools that allowed ordinary people to hack computers running Microsoft's Windows. It's also known for inventing the word "hacktivism" to describe human-rights-driven security work.
Members of the group have protected O'Rourke's secret for decades, reluctant to compromise his political viability. Now, in a series of interviews, CDC members have acknowledged O'Rourke as one of their own. Slashdot interviewed members of the Cult of the Cow in 1999 -- which gave bizarre answers.
Members of the group have protected O'Rourke's secret for decades, reluctant to compromise his political viability. Now, in a series of interviews, CDC members have acknowledged O'Rourke as one of their own. Slashdot interviewed members of the Cult of the Cow in 1999 -- which gave bizarre answers.
Beto, better known by his hacker name 0t3b, was not only a member of cDc, but the founder. After flashing an EEPROM with gamma radiation, 0t3b slammed the chip into his arm where the gamma radiation linked the chip to his bloodstream giving him uber-leet superpowers. 0t3b could now hack the gibson using only his voice and gesture controls.
Seriously, watch out for this guy. You think a Russian agent in the White House is bad? 0t3b is literally where Russian and Chinese haxorz wannabees go to learn their skillz.
Oh great he's a Window's guy... No way I can vote for him now...
Divine right of Virginia prep-school boys? Glad to see the progressives progressing. /s
Look at the quotes from his speech yesterday. He was off script and sounded exactly like Trump.
Seth Meyer even read his transcript in Trump's voice: https://youtu.be/CuXlBSuQbMo?t...
Look at the quotes from his speech yesterday. He was off script and sounded exactly like Trump.
Seth Meyer even read his transcript in Trump's voice: https://youtu.be/CuXlBSuQbMo?t...
So you're saying that Beto is eminently electable for 2020?
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