FRONTLINE Interviews Alex Stamos On Social Media Ethics, Security In The U.S., World
Alex Stamos is an old friend of Beto O'Rourke, and later member of the original hacking supergroup, The Cult of the Dead Cow, of which Beto was a founding member. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Stamos
Members of the cDc, the first hackers, communicated together from all over the country, organized the first hacker conferences; became the major advisers and consultants to the Pentagon, Intel agencies, and the Congressional Intelligence committees, and are now among the heads of the security industry, founders of great software corporations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow
Twenty of them are now known, and I recommend reading Joseph Menn's Cult of the Dead Cow -- How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World (2019), to learn how they've kept net industries from being the Wild West. There's a lot to learn about our Internet communications issues and history, and this cDc group is a good start. Not all of them are in Wikipedia, but Googling them works.
*Kevin Wheeler/Swamp Rat
Bill Brown/Franken Gibe
Beto O'Rourke/Psychedelic Warlord
Carrie Campbell/Lady Carolin
Jessy Dryden/Drunkfux
Paul Leonard/Obscure Images
Chris Tucker/Nightstalker
Dan MacMillan/White Knight
Misha Kubecka/Omega
John Lester/Count Zero
Luke Benfey/Deth Vegetble
Sam Anthony/Tweety Fish
*Peiter Zatka/Mudge
Laird Brown/Oxblood ruffin
Josh Buchbinder/Sir Dystic
Christien Rioux/Dildog
Adam O'Donnell/Javaman
Jacob Appelbaum/IOerror
Kemal Adman/Mixter
Patrick Kroupa/Lord Digital
The rest want to remain anonymous. I'm not sure if cDc officially exists anymore.
Stamos is now recognized as the greatest expert on Internet security threats, and helped Facebook and Robert Mueller trace the biggest data steal from Cambridge Analytica and Russia's GRU.
Stamos wants our technology sector to build institutional memory.
The best reason is that the social good of our technology systems will become the a large part of the ethical underpinning of our democracy.
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