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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6814145/SPECIAL-REPORT-Beto-ORourkes-secret-membership-legendary-hacking-group.html

Democrats' newest presidential candidate's past as a teenage hacker who posted bizarre fiction about killing children is revealed

Beto O'Rourke was member of hacker group called Cult of the Dead Cow and called himself Psychedelic Warlord, he will admit in a new book

He posted on 'bulletin boards' - primitive equivalents of websites - and has left some of his writing intact

One story when he was 15 described running over two children in the street and said: 'I just sat in a daze, sweet visions filling my head.'

Group stole credit card and calling card details to avoid running up large phone bills on modems which would have been a potential felony at the time

O'Rourke admitted he pilfered long-distance service 'so I wouldn't run up the phone bill' but did not admit whether that involved credit or phone card fraud

Democrat says in new book that Cult of the Dead Cow taught him how to be 'apart from the system and look at it critically and have fun while you're doing it'

Group also posted pirated software, tools to hack Windows computers and distributed an essay called 'Sex with Satan'