Space Rogue: How the Hackers Known As L0pht Changed the World

by Cris Thomas

We were just a bunch of people with a clubhouse and a lot of computers, which made it very easy to be manipulated by the media. This was not a cognitive realization at the time; we didn’t sit around and debate our mission statement, but those early media pieces got us thinking and realizing just how powerful the media could be.

An outside consultant who eventually became @stake’s Chief People Officer, which I thought at the time was the corniest made-up title I had ever heard, ran the meeting. I have heard a lot cornier titles since then.