On this day, Jan. 8, in 1986, Loyd Blankenship wrote "The Conscience of a Hacker," now a cornerstone of the hacking culture. The essay appeared in the underground Phrack magazine shortly after ...

[The Mentor] is [Loyd Blankenship], who belonged to the “‘2nd generation’ of LOD [Legion of Doom].”[2] He was arrested in 1986 when he “got caught inside a computer he should not have ...

An infamous short essay titled "The Conscience of a Hacker" — better known as the "Hacker Manifesto" — just turned 30 years old. On Jan. 8, 1986, the essay, written by a hacker known as The ...

Twenty-nine years ago today, most of us were given an education. Our lesson originated in the words of an essay written by Loyd Blankenship, better known at the time as The Mentor.

It was because, at the time, it had employed a man by the name of Loyd Blankenship to write a game for them. And Blakenship was a hacker. Loyd Blankenship, aka The Mentor, has been hacking since ...

In 1986, Lloyd Blankenship, who went by the stylized handle +++The Mentor+++, drafted "The Conscience of a Hacker," widely known as the Hacker's Manifesto. Blankenship, who was a member of the ...