The Mentor (Loyd Blankenship)
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The Legion of Doom member who, hours after his 1986 arrest, wrote the short essay published in Phrack as The Conscience of a Hacker - universally known as the Hacker Manifesto - and who later, by coincidence of employment, wrote the cyberpunk game manual the Secret Service seized in the Steve Jackson Games raid.
The Manifesto is the most reprinted text the culture produced: a defence of curiosity as a crime of the mind, written by a teenager and quoted ever since in films, talks and courtrooms. Blankenship's second brush with the law is the more instructive one - his GURPS Cyberpunk manuscript was confiscated as a supposed hacking manual, and the fiasco helped bring the Electronic Frontier Foundation into existence.
Also known as: loyd blankenship, conscience of a hacker, gurps cyberpunk