Loyd Blankenship

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Loyd Blankenship (right) with his niece

Loyd Blankenship , aka The Mentor , (* 1965 ) is an American hacker and author .

Life

Loyd Blankenship is the author of on 8 January 1986 under the pseudonym The Mentor in the underground magazine Phrack published Hacker Manifesto . He is also a co-founder of the “ Legion of Doom ” hacking group . In 1990 he designed the role-playing game system " GURPS Cyberpunk" for the game publisher Steve Jackson Games . He is currently working as a freelance game designer and musician.

In 2005, a documentary about Blankenship's life was published in the film BBS: The Documentary - The Mentor .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hacker magazine "Phrack": Last edition after 20 years appears in print form. July 18, 2005. Available online at news.at
  2. ↑ Larry Loeb (2002): Hack proofing XML. Page 21. Syngress Verlag. Burlington, Massachusetts.
  3. ↑ Seymour Bosworth, ME Kabay, Eric Whyne: Computer Security Handbook , Wiley, Chapter 2.14.9 online
  4. ^ S. Pankaj: Hacking , APH Publishing Corporation, ISBN 978-8176487207 , p. 308 online
personal data
SURNAME Blankenship, Loyd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES The Mentor (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American hacker and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH United States