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CULT OF THE DEAD COW: Ninja Strike Force. Here is all that can be known: You have never seen us, but you may have felt our wrath.
We operate in the bitter darkness outside the known channels. We slink like cats along the fringes, spreading the power and propaganda of the Cow wherever we are. We are the most secretive agents of that cult, existing only to fight and die for its greater glory. Ours are lives of total devotion to the forces of the cDc. We have mastered, one and all, the power of digital chi; we have been deeply indoctrinated into its devastating offensive capabilities, and we can strike, suddenly and mercilessly, without even moving a finger.
Cult of the Dead Cow. To further the Cult's stated goal of "Global Domination Through Media Saturation," over the years cDc members have granted interviews to major newspapers, print magazines, online news sites, and international television news programs.
[citation needed] Timeline[edit] The group was formed in June 1984 at the Farm Pac slaughterhouse by Grandmaster Ratte' (aka Swamp Ratte'), Franken Gibe, and Sid Vicious, three BBS SysOps. The slaughterhouse, a hangout of many Lubbock youth, was burned in 1996. (The burned out building was used as a haunted house for several Halloweens after that. In December 1990, cDc member Drunkfux - the pseudonym of Jesse Dryden, the son of Jefferson Airplane drummer Spencer Dryden and great-nephew of Charlie Chaplin - gave birth to the modern hacker con. October 1994 saw the creation of the cDc's Usenet newsgroup, alt.fan.cult-dead-cow. Hacktivismo. Hacktivismo is an offshoot of CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc), whose beliefs include access to information as a basic human right.
It was founded in 1999. The group's beliefs are described fully in The Hacktivismo Declaration, which seeks to apply the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to the Internet. Oxblood Ruffin, the director of Hacktivismo, has argued forcefully against definitions of hacktivism that include web defacements or denial-of-service attacks. Hacktivismo has also authored its own software license agreement, the Hacktivismo Enhanced-Source Software License Agreement (HESSLA). The HESSLA prohibits use or modification that would violate human rights or introduce features that spy on the user. News.
cDc releases Goolag Scanner (posted by MiB on Februari 20th, 2008) SECURITY ADVISORY: The following program may screw a large Internet search engine and make the Web a safer place.
LUBBOCK, TX, February 20th -- Today CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc), the world's most attractive hacker group, announced the release of Goolag Scanner, a web auditing tool. Goolag Scanner enables everyone to audit his or her own web site via Google. The scanner technology is based on "Google hacking," a form of vulnerability research developed by Johnny I Hack Stuff. He's a lovely fellow. "It's no big secret that the Web is the platform," said cDc spokesmodel Oxblood Ruffin. Goolag Scanner will be released open source under the GNU Affero General Public license. Goolag Scanner is a standalone windows GUI based application. Press Contact Oxblood Ruffin oxblood at hacktivismo.com About Goolag Scanner About Johnny I Hack Stuff and here About Wau Holland and here Arrakis joins the team (posted by MiB on April 24th, 2007) cDc's NINJA STRIKE FORCE Associated SexXxee Sites.