Making Big Things Better The Dead Cow Way
summary
A 35‑year history of the Cult of the Dead Cow maps concrete actions: releasing Back Orifice to expose Windows security flaws (process injection, DLL injection worked on Windows 2000 without admin), seeding a proto‑Tor privacy browser, influencing war‑crimes evidence in the Yugoslavia trials, founding AtStake which built automated binary decompilation tools later commercialized, and hacking federal procurement to create Cyber Fast Track — a three‑day, one‑page contract path that funded tools like HackRF and quick research.
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chapters (34)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:50Welcome
- 2:40Luke Fry
- 13:00CDC
- 15:00Spin in a Spin
- 16:00At Stake
- 17:00At Stake Highlights
- 18:00Binary Analysis
- 19:00Code Reviews
- 20:00Hacktivism
- 21:00Media Influence
- 22:00Surveillance
- 23:00Cult of the Dead Cow
- 24:00Onion Routing
- 25:00Civil Liberties
- 26:00Hacking
- 27:00Media and Hacking
- 29:00Impact Outside the Government
- 30:00Impact Inside the Government
- 31:00Helping Everyone Else
- 32:00Cyber Fast Track
- 34:00Hack the Government Process
- 35:00My Goals Were Different
- 36:00The Problems Were The Government Systems
- 37:00Automating Security Vulnerability Analysis
- 38:00Julian Assange
- 39:00Jake Tapper
- 40:00Chaos Computer Club
- 41:00Open Doors
- 42:00Beta Roark
- 43:00CDC History
- 44:00Bait ORourke
- 46:00Hacking and CDC
- 47:00Sweatshop Record
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