https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-politics-beto-orourke/
By Joseph Menn
Reuters
March 15, 2019
(This article is adapted from a forthcoming book, "Cult of the Dead Cow: How
the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World")
Some things you might know about Beto O'Rourke, the former Texas congressman
who just entered the race for president:
The Democratic contender raised a record amount for a U.S. Senate race in 2018
and almost beat the incumbent in a Republican stronghold, without hiding his
support for gun control and Black Lives Matter protests on the football field.
When he was younger, he was arrested on drunk-driving charges and played in a
punk band. Now 46, he still skateboards.
The charismatic politician with the Kennedy smile is liberal on some issues and
libertarian on others, which could allow him to cross the country's political
divide.
One thing you didn’t know: While a teenager, O'Rourke acknowledged in an
exclusive interview, he belonged to the oldest group of computer hackers in
U.S. history.
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.
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