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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.

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  1. He would get my vote (fist post?) by turp182 · · Score: 4, Interesting

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

    First post?

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  2. Re:Not a Republican by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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