Circa 1999, the Zero Knowledge Systems (ZKS) startup had a group called Evil Geniuses.
There was also a cryptography startup later on called Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow (working on peer-to-peer stuff that I think is slightly akin to Filecoin).
I was looking for the source of the quote as I had never heard it, but didn't realize my brain had assumed Leonard not Jim.
Yuval Noah Harari’s speech on how control over one’s biometric data should be handed to the elites in order to hack the human animal was really inspirational.