American presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke: Former punk rocker and a hacker

Beto O'Rourke now is a suit-clad american presidential candidate, but years ago he was a skateboarding punk rocker playing in a band Foss with Cedric Bixler-Zavala, who went on to become lead singer of At The Drive-In and The Mars Volta. Back then O’Rourke also used to be a hacker - in the 1980s he was pirating computer software and games for his own personal enjoyment. As an early member of the hacking group The Cult of the Dead Cow, he started his own bulletin board called TacoLand, which was dedicated to punk music. Reuters...