Loyd Blankenship

Loyd Blankenship & niece, 2006.

Loyd Blankenship (a.k.a. The Mentor, stylized as +++The Mentor+++) (born 1965) has been a well-known American computer hacker and writer since the 1970s, 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), written after he was arrested, and was published in the underground hacker ezine Phrack. Blankenship gave a reading of The Hacker Manifesto and offered additional insight at H2K2.^[1]

He also authored the cyberpunk role-playing sourcebook GURPS Cyberpunk, the manuscript of which was seized in a 1990 raid of his employer's (Steve Jackson Games, SJ Games) headquarters by the U.S. Secret Service. (This was not part of the Operation Sundevil raids, but rather came months afterward.) In a decision following a subsequent lawsuit filed by SJ Games, the court reprimanded the Secret Service for "sloppy" warrant preparation, suggested that the Secret Service needed "better education" regarding relevant statutes, and found that the Secret Service had no basis to suspect SJ Games of any wrongdoing.^{[citation needed]} The court awarded SJ Games $300,000 (US) in damages and attorney's fees. (For the full article, see Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service).

References

1. ^ H2K2, The Conscience of a Hacker.

External links

• Personal site
• ElfQrin.com Interview with The Mentor (July 31, 2000)
• Loyd Blankenship at the Internet Movie Database
• "The Conscience of a Hacker" published in Phrack Volume 1 Issue 7

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