https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-beto-orourke-special-rep/spe... On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 1:21 PM Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Not trying to get into politics but from the histoical "okay that is crazy..."
It just hit the naws that one of the guys running for president who has been a politician for a while (Beto O'Rourke) was actually a member of cDc, Cult of the Dead Cow. This was a legendary "hacking" group that used to release a lot of t-files. He ran a BBS apparently. cDc held back this knowledge for a while so as to not interfere with his career but he went public with it. A book about cDc is supposed to come out.
A whole lot of people that are not familiar with the old school hacking social groups and BBSes and all of that could potentially start to hear about it depending on how far the guy gets in politics. Could bring a lot of attention to 80s/90s computing and the community around it all.
- Ethan