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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. Re:He would get my vote (fist post?) by tomhath · · Score: 1, Troll

    The last Presidential race was a shit show of insane proportions

    You ain't seen nothing yet. I wonder if next he's going to brag about how he slept his way up the political ladder. Oh wait, that was Kamala Harris. Or lie about his minority heritage? Nah, Elizabeth Warren already has that angle covered.

  2. Re:He would get my vote (fist post?) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    " I wonder if next he's going to brag about how he slept his way up the political ladder. " - Or if he'll brag about how he wants to fuck his own daughter, or brag about how he illegally quashed an investigation into him? Lol. Traitor faggot.

    I wonder if you whiny head-in-ass traitors will ever matter in US politics ever again, once Trump goes off to prison? Probably just a side-note in history : World's dumbest traitor and apology crew, history's lesson.

  3. Enough of the "Beto" stuff by wyattstorch516 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Where does he get off assigning himself a Spanish nickname. He is just about as Latin as tuna casserole.

  4. Re:He would get my vote (fist post?) by squiggleslash · · Score: -1, Troll

    There's a difference between claiming minority status and writing that you think you have native American blood on a student card. Her DNA test showed that actually she was correct in believing she had, and didn't lie on that either.

    Her student ID wasn't the source of the controversy, it was that she was listed as being in a minority by her employer.

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  5. Nice and all but... by sbrown123 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Robert can't hide he is a CIS white male no matter what nickname he invents for himself. And those are at the bottom in the Oppression Olympics which the Democrats use to pick candidates. Maybe if there were no women or "person of color" running he might have a chance. Slashdot liking him only makes it worse as it is heavily populated by more CIS white males.

  6. Re:Not a Republican by DogDude · · Score: 0, Troll

    If he was a Republican, you'd be hearing: - He's the son of a judge - Went to boarding school - Dodged burglary and DUI charges - He married into a Billionaire family

    Whose fault is it that most Republican politicians are assholes? You have a "media" outlet that you can listen to if you don't want to know the truth about people. It's called "Fox News". Tune in, turn off, and drop out. Just please, please don't vote.

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  7. Re:He would get my vote (fist post?) by pgmrdlm · · Score: -1, Troll

    I see you are a hypocrite Pope. I see you condemn nobody of liberal leanings that are just as hateful. Where hypocrite did I talk about shooting up anyone. It is openly discussed that civil war is coming. I guess you just are narrow minded in the places you read.

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  8. Re:Whine, whine, whine... by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1, Troll

    Censure and move on.

    Did you know far-left group MoveOn.org literally got their name from telling everyone we should not pay attention to the fact that Bill Clinton is a rapist? That was their motto. A literal rapist, and they said, "Censure and move on." Believe all women my ass.

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