They made hacking possible to every schoolkid. Cult of the Dead Cow

July 1999, Las Vegas, DefCon. Subscribe to our channel: https://bit.ly/SubscribeToSumsub

It couldn't get any better than this. This evening in Las Vegas, filled with positive craziness, youthful energy, and freedom, will be the pinnacle of a hacker cult that changed the history of hacking, digital technology, and cybersecurity.

That night, members of the Cult of the Dead Cow staged a performance at the DefCon hacking conference. Their goal was to draw media attention to their new utility.

BO2K, as the program is called, is kryptonite against Bill Gates' all-powerful corporation. And it will change the world of software.

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Timecodes
00:00 Intro
02:03 Meet Kevin, the creator of CDC
03:10 1984, a Texan teenager seeks friends online
03:37 Bulletin Board Systems (BBS)
04:34 The early days of CDC
06:34 Early 90s, cult activity grows
07:00 Cult of the Dead Cow gets a substantial branch
08:30 Hackers arrive at Congress
10:38 How CDC came up with Back Orifice
13:19 Hackers ask FBI for permission to release BO
13:50 How we decided to take the hard route
14:29 Presenting retro laptops for the experiment
15:12 Showing BO's capabilities, attacking the “victim’s” laptop
16:18 Main features of BO
17:45 How CDC worked with the media (spoiler - very talented)
19:40 CDC starts a media war with Microsoft
20:40 The legendary BO2K presentation
22:47 The end of the MS-DOS era
24:00 We are still feeling the consequences of BO2K's rise. Here's Sumsub's internal statistics
26:25 Where CDC members are now


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