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originally posted by: TheMadBird
Who cares? It's fiction, for cat's sake. No one claims Stephen King kills New England kids, or that Terry Brooks is actually a wizard.
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. In all, more than a dozen members of the group agreed to be named for the first time in a book about the hacking group by this reporter that is scheduled to be published in June by Public Affairs. O’Rourke was interviewed early in his run for the Senate.
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O’Rourke, too, thought differently. His CDC writing from nearly three decades ago, under the handle “Psychedelic Warlord,” remains online.
One article he wrote as a teen mused how the world would work without money. After changing the system, including the government, O’Rourke foresaw the end of starvation and class distinctions.
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Another t-file from O’Rourke, written when he was 15, is a short and disturbing piece of fiction. “One day, as I was driving home from work, I noticed two children crossing the street. They were happy, happy to be free from their troubles…. This happiness was mine by right. I had earned it in my dreams.
originally posted by: rickymouse
a reply to: jadedANDcynical
So, he was part of an old hacking group. I wonder what kind of stuff he hacked, did he steal from people or businesses, or just from governments.
Somehow you are not aware of
originally posted by: Halfswede
To be fair, I think Stephen King is not right in the head and wouldn't want him leading the country under any circumstance. I find it terribly sad that the excuses are ," but someone else is worse".
Back in the late nineties, I had all sorts of hacking software. I had a friend who owned a computer business and he had all sorts of hacking stuff he got from others. I used my software to get into virus effected computers to help them fix the computer. You could use some of that software to remotely hack other computers back then. I would also go to places and use the backdoor to get information all the time. Someone would supply a link to some information and with that link, which often contained the password to get in, I could get all over in the site. I had chemical databases I could utilize from colleges to use to evaluate mixed chemicals in foods to see if the resulting chemistry had toxic effect. I liked that database, but you know, after the guy graduated from the university his password was no longer good.
originally posted by: Malisa
originally posted by: rickymouse
a reply to: jadedANDcynical
So, he was part of an old hacking group. I wonder what kind of stuff he hacked, did he steal from people or businesses, or just from governments.
Somehow you are not aware of the real meaning of 'hacking' back then. Let's say for example, a hacker created the Web. Hackers very much created the modern internet. I guess these hackers also stole from people or businesses, or the government?
There are some cases when you would say "you sound like an old man with no clue about what's going on in the modern world" but in this case it may be the completely opposite. You live in this modern world yet you don't even know or understand how it came to be and what a 'hacker' means in the context of the real world, you know, that one that actually keeps things moving forwards and alive? Immediately you jumped to the criminal hysteria mindset, yet you enjoy what they created... Stop watching retarded news and stupid shows that portray those guys as criminals, read more
Hacker's are still working and keeping things moving forward, how do you think those space ships reach the ISS or go the moon?
On the other hand, you may be thinking of the word cracker or maybe even, gasp! 'criminals'