Beto O'Rourke was a teenage member of hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow

Democratic presidential candidate's membership of group that invented the term 'hacktivism' may explain much about his approach to politics

Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic presidential candidate, belonged as a teenager to the oldest group of computer hackers in US history, he has revealed in an interview.

Members of the influential, so-called Cult of the Dead Cow, jokingly named after an abandoned Texas slaughterhouse, have protected his secret for decades, reluctant to compromise his political viability.