Loyd Blankenship

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Loyd Blankenship
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Loyd Blankenship
Occupations
  • Hacker
  • writer
Known for Hacker Manifesto
Notable work GURPS Cyberpunk

Loyd Blankenship, better known by his pseudonym The Mentor, is an American computer hacker and writer. He has been active since the 1970s, when he was a member of the hacker groups Extasyy Elite and Legion of Doom.

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Writings

Hacker Manifesto

He is the author of The Conscience of a Hacker (also known as The Hacker Manifesto); the essay was written after he was arrested and was published in the ezine Phrack . [1] Since the essay's publication in 1986, it has been the subject of numerous panels and T-shirts. [2]

Role-playing games

Blankenship was hired by Steve Jackson Games in 1989. [3] He authored the cyberpunk role-playing sourcebook GURPS Cyberpunk , the manuscript of which was seized in a 1990 raid of Steve Jackson Games headquarters by the U.S. Secret Service. [4] [5] The raid resulted in the subsequent legal case Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service . [6]

References

  1. ↑ Sterling, Bruce (1991). The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier . Bantam Books. pp.  74. ISBN   0-553-56370-X.
  2. ↑ The Mentor (1986). "The Conscience of a Hacker". Phrack. 1 (7): 3.
  3. ↑ Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. p. 108. ISBN   978-1-907702-58-7.
  4. ↑ Sterling, Bruce (1991). The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier . Bantam Books. pp.  122. ISBN   0-553-56370-X.
  5. ↑ Biocca, Frank; Levy, Mark R. (1995). Communication in the Age of Virtual Reality. Routledge. p. 353. ISBN   978-1-135-69357-2.
  6. ↑ "Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. US Secret Service, 816 F. Supp. 432 (W.D. Tex. 1993)". Justia Law. Retrieved June 19, 2025.


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