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Loyd Blankenship

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Loyd Blankenship & niece, 2006.

Loyd Blankenship (a.k.a. The Mentor) (born 1965) has been a well-known American computer hacker and writer since the 1980s, when he was a member of the hacker groups Extasyy Elite and Legion of Doom.

He is the author of The Conscience of a Hacker (Hacker Manifesto), which was written after he was arrested and was published in the underground hacker ezine Phrack. Loyd gave a reading of The Hacker Manifesto and offered [1] additional insight 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. This was not part of the Operation Sundevil raids, but rather came months afterward.

References

  1. ^ H2K2, The Conscience of a Hacker.
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