I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike. -- The Conscience of a Hacker (also known as The Hacker Manifesto) is a short essay written on January 8, 1986 by Loyd Blankenship, a computer security hacker who went by the handle The Mentor, and belonged to the second generation of hacker group Legion of Doom. ;-)