Loyd Blankenship

Loyd Blankenship (a.k.a. The Mentor) has been a well known American computer hacker and writer since the 1980s, when he was a member of the hacker group The 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 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)