Hackers Testifying at the United States Senate, May 19, 1998 (L0pht Heavy Industries)

L0pht Heavy Industries testifying before the United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, Live feed from CSPAN, May 19, 1998. Starring Brian Oblivion, Kingpin, Tan, Space Rogue, Weld Pond, Mudge, and Stefan von Neumann.

This is the infamous testimony where Mudge stated we could take down the Internet in 30 minutes. Although that's all the media took from it, much more was discussed. See for yourself.

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  News & Politics

[Jesse Harlow]

if "you" can get into the vault, its not impenetrable

[Ronald Mcraygun]

no...lol anon is a joke compared to l0pht... these were the real HACKERS of the 90s not basement dwelling 4channers.

[AWSKAR]

"can ya just go in the power line and blow the computer?"

[Chicanrey]

...what? Anonymous is an idea. Everyone is Anonymous, and no one is Anonymous. Anonymous is the world. A few people DDoS/DoS, but not all of them.

[zioncanyon100]

35 seconds in................."oh and dirty diaper face and hairy ball sandwich"

[opt1p1ex]

Still, but HD Moore's Law is a reality

[opt1p1ex]

They'd be viewed as more grey-hat, as the likes of Microsoft etc would sooner see them jailed than have them expose the inherent weaknesses in the MS software

[Marc Mar]

It is good to see that those people (obviously white hats) are so articulate and driven. Surprisingly, they were not much taken seriously by companies... 

[coderinclouds]

Anonymous is just a group of people who mostly don't understand shit about computers. 

[3D]

All Anonymous does is DDOS.

[3D]

MANY SPACE MARINES WILL BE BOUGHT FROM GAMES WORKSHOP!