10 Greatest Hackers Who Did The Unbelievable

5. Loyd Blankenship

Loyd Blankenship was part of the Legion of Doom, whose sworn enemy was the hacker group, the Masters of Deception. His online name was The Mentor. The LOD was part of the Great Hacker War, an online battle that took place from 1990 to 1991, against the Masters of Deception. Blankenship wrote “The Conscience of a Hacker”, a philosophical book on the nature of hacking.

In it, he claims that a hackers only crime is curiosity. It’s one of the biggest books in hacker philosophy, and still inspires hackers today. He’s been a hacker since of the 1970’s and is one of the most famous hackers around today.