Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup
Might Just Save the World | Revised | Paperback

Joseph Menn

PublicAffairs | PublicAffairs

Computers / Internet - Online Safety & Privacy / True Crime / Cybercrime / Political Science / Intelligence & Espionage

Release date Dec 2, 2025

"The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of
hackers fighting to protect our freedom, "a hugely important
piece of the puzzle for anyone who wants to understand the
forces shaping the internet age" (The New York Times Book
Review)

"Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest active, most
respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time.
With its origins in the earliest days of the internet, the cDc
is full of oddball characters-activists, artists, and
musicians-some of whom went on to advise presidents, cabinet
members, and CEOs, and who now walk the corridors of power in
Washington and Silicon Valley.

"Today, the group and its followers are battling electoral
misinformation, making personal data safer, and organizing to
keep technology a force for good instead of for surveillance
and oppression. Now featuring a new afterword with updates on
the collective, Cult of the Dead Cow describes how, at a time
when governments, corporations, and criminals hold immense
power, a small band of tech iconoclasts is on our side fighting
back.


9781541706118


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Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup
Might Just Save the World | Revised | Paperback

Joseph Menn

Release date Dec 2, 2025

This looks great - gonna have to order it and give a read thru this holiday season. Anyone else???



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Hello paulie420!

** On Monday 17.11.25 - 18:40, paulie420 wrote to Ogg:

Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup
Might Just Save the World | Revised | Paperback

Joseph Menn

Release date Dec 2, 2025

This looks great - gonna have to order it and give a read thru this
holiday season. Anyone else???

Originally out in 2019, with this in the cover:

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(U)

But, the Revised edition apparently includes real names of
members, and some other new material.

It will be on my list of reads.

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Originally out in 2019, with this in the cover:

_ _
((___))
[ x x ]
\ /
(' ')
(U)

But, the Revised edition apparently includes real names of
members, and some other new material.

It will be on my list of reads.

BETO.



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Hello paulie420!

It will be on my list of reads.

BETO.

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It will be on my list of reads.

BETO.

?

I think it's a soup.

... War never decides who is right, only who is left.

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Hello paulie420!

It will be on my list of reads.

BETO.

Beto Orouke (sp?), the politician was once in the CotDC cohort.



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Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup
Might Just Save the World | Revised | Paperback

Hopefully this isn't too "political", as it's a politician, but I thought it was super neat when finding out about Beto O'Rourke, when he was in a higher-profile race, that he had been a member of the group.

Not as a coder or anything, but still...

I do think that's the sort of thing that should be extra bonus points for people who have been 2600 fans, or involved with various related things.

It's certainly unusual. It would be neat if more politicians had a background in these sorts of things.

Okay, hopefully that was fine on politics. Please no responses that talk about actual political issues; I just wanted to mention the "prominent people" aspect, rather than any of his actual positions.

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But, the Revised edition apparently includes real names of
members, and some other new material.

BETO.

...and evidently I was not the only person to think about him because of this.

Hah!

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