{"id":149059,"date":"2022-10-28T22:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T03:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/beto-orourkes-secret-membership-in-americas-oldest-hacking-group"},"modified":"2022-10-28T22:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T03:22:18","slug":"beto-orourkes-secret-membership-in-americas-oldest-hacking-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/beto-orourkes-secret-membership-in-americas-oldest-hacking-group","title":{"rendered":"Beto O\u2019Rourke\u2019s secret membership in America\u2019s oldest hacking group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/beto-orourkes-secret-membership-in-americas-oldest-hacking-group3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Rourke soon started his own board, TacoLand, which was freewheeling and largely about punk music. \u201cThis was the counterculture: Maximum Rock &amp; Roll[magazine], buying records by catalog you couldn\u2019t find at record stores,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>When he was younger, he was arrested on drunk-driving charges and played in a punk band. Now 46, he still skateboards.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly I played in Punk Rock bands in New Orleans, and used CDC\u2019s BO2k to show my friend KJ that Southwest Research\u2019s network was not safe. I also used it in Austin to show my friend Jacob Grimes\u2019 boss that his network was not safe. It was a handy tool for hackers and security researchers back in the day. Texans know all too much about it. This gave Beto major cool points in my book. Hacktivismo still continues today with people like Johnny Long, and I would hope me too. I loved the Ninja Strike Force back in the day.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As Beto O\u2019Rourke starts his run for U.S. president, members of a group famous for \u201chactivism\u201d come forward for the first time to claim him as a former comrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O\u2019Rourke soon started his own board, TacoLand, which was freewheeling and largely about punk music. \u201cThis was the counterculture: Maximum Rock &amp; Roll[magazine], buying records by catalog you couldn\u2019t find at record stores,\u201d he said. When he was younger, he was arrested on drunk-driving charges and played in a punk band. Now 46, he still [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1759,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-governance","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}