You may not have heard of the Cult of the Dead Cow, but what it spawned is a phenomenon: the high-tech form of protest known as 'hacktivism'
In a new book, Reuters reporter Joseph Menn details how a coterie of tech hobbyists in Texas in the 1980s grew into an influential organization, called the Cult of the Dead Cow, that promoted the use of computer hacking for political ends—or “hacktivism,” as they called it.
Mr. Menn also revealed in “Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World” that Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas congressman running for president, was a member of the collective starting in his teenage years. Mr. O’Rourke...
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