CULT OF THE DEAD COW & Friends Present: Prime Cuts from Hacker History - 40 Years of 31337

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Presented at DEFCON 23 by

Deth Veggie

Walter Scheirer

Patrick “Lord Digital” Kroupa

John Threat

Emmanuel Goldstein

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TommydCat

The year is 1984… Ronald Reagan is President, it is a “New Mourning in America.” In Texas, a small cabal of malcontents meet in an abandoned slaughterhouse, decorated with heavy metal band posters, satanic iconography, and, most ominously, the skull of a DEAD COW… As pirated copies of speedmetal and punk music play in the background, these erstwhile revolutionaries speak of their disillusion with The Way Things Are, and their obsession with their new computers. All over America, teens were waking to not just the typical dissatisfaction of adolescence, but the awareness that via these new modes of communication and interaction, they could meet like-minded others, have some illicit fun, and maybe, just maybe, change the goddamn world.