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.

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He would get my vote (fist post?)

[turp182]

On this alone. The last Presidential race was a shit show of insane proportions (I voted, but not Dem/Repub).

First post?

Re:He would get my vote (fist post?)

[DNS-and-BIND]

Fauxcohontas got into Harvard Law School as a minority hire, due to her falsely claiming to be Cherokee. Harvard proudly touted her as the school's first woman of color. No kidding, this really happened. Without it, does she get in? Who can say? We can only say that when she got in Harvard was desperate for people just like her.

She also contributed recipes to a cookbook called, and I am not making this up: "Pow Wow Chow". Yikes. Can you imagine? That's a career-killer for anyone but a Democrat. What if you found out one of your friends had contributed to a cookbook with an offensive name like that? Would you cut off all ties?

But that's not even the best part of the story. She plagarized two of the recipes from a French chef. Because that's what Harvard graduates do. The dishes? Why, those traditional Cherokee meals of Cold Omelets with Crab Meat and Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing. If there had only been some clue that a French chef was copied!

Re:Not a Republican

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, it is pretty well spread across Texas. That is why a number of of us are like wtf. The opinion here is he is corrupt:

Abused eminent domain against the hispanic community for his father in law's profit
Has a record of DWI and Burglary