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Why Hackers Are Stoked That Beto O’Rourke Was One Of Them

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

This week, CYBER speaks to Oxblood Ruffin, a long-time member of the legendary hacking group Cult of The Dead Cow, or cDc. Ruffin told us about the cDc, its historical importance, and why it's a big deal that a US presidential candidate was once part of the group.

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0:00.0

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.8

It's a unit system.

0:13.2

I know this.

0:15.1

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.3

It tells her everything.

0:19.1

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.6

The Eagle won. The package is being delivered.

0:24.6

It used to be that presidents had to be like war heroes, or at least of serve,

0:29.6

gone to an Ivy League school and been in some weird sanctimonious noble family of New England.

0:34.6

But in 2020, we could be facing a much different type of pedigree,

0:39.6

hacker-in-chief. Former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke is the latest candidate to enter the race

0:46.3

for president of the United States. To many, he's already one of the top contenders to the

0:51.9

Democratic ticket that will face off against Donald Trump. He also happens to have been a member of one of the top contenders to the Democratic ticket that will face off against Donald Trump.

0:55.9

He also happens to have been a member of one of the most OG and most radical hacking groups

1:00.9

of all time, the cult of the dead cow. They were anonymous before anonymous stopped pissing

1:07.5

on the seat. The Lulsec before Lulsec got out of its diapers and so on and so forth.

1:12.6

Born online in the 80s and active into the 2000s,

1:16.6

the legendary group fought against government surveillance,

1:18.6

internet censorship, and often exposed widespread vulnerabilities

1:22.6

to the dismay of corporations.

1:24.6

I mean, the CDC is known to have literally coined the term hacktivism.

1:30.2

At DefCon in 1998, they released Back Orifice, an early version of a Trojan horse

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