Loyd Blankenship
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Loyd Blankenship (a.k.a. The Mentor) has been a well known American computer hacker and writer since the 1980s, when he was a founding member of the hacker group Legion of Doom. He is the author of The Conscience of a Hacker (a.k.a. The Hacker Manifesto), which he wrote after being arrested and published in the underground hacker ezine Phrack. Loyd gave a reading of The Hacker Manifesto and offered additional insight (http://www.h2k2.net/panels.html#mentor) at H2K2. He also wrote the cyberpunk role-playing sourcebook GURPS Cyberpunk, which due to his involvement was confiscated by the U.S. Secret Service during the Operation Sundevil raids.
External links
- Elfqrin.com interview with The Mentor (July 31, 2000) (http://www.elfqrin.com/docs/hakref/interviews/eq-i-mentor.html)