mo4ch:>Beto's secret life as teenage hacker, bovine erotica poet in 'Cult of Dead Cow' | Mo4ch News

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke waxed nostalgic about his youth in a hacker collective called the Cult of the Dead Cow in a book teaser that is being released just in time to revive interest in his primary run.Beto O'Rourke, the photogenic son of privilege who entered the crowded Democratic primary field earlier this week, had an alter ego called 'Psychedelic Warlord' that hacked long-distance phone services to post on internet bulletin boards as a member of an early hacker collective called the Cult of the Dead Cow, according to a book profiling the group credited with coining the term "hacktivism."The Texas politician, long before he ever thought of challenging Ted Cruz in the 2018 Senate race with the hope of flipping a perennially red seat for the Democrats, or instagramming his dental cleaning, was writing short stories about running over children in his car and bovine erotic poetry on the prehistoric equivalent of Facebook.It's almos…