Hacker Manifesto

The Hacker Manifesto (Original: The Conscience of a Hacker ) is a published article in 1986 by Loyd Blankenship, who became one of the most important texts of the network and computer security hacker culture.

History

The article was written on 8 January 1986. He appeared under the pseudonym The Mentor in Phrack, the most famous underground hacking magazine of the United States. As a result, it reached a large spread within the hacker culture and its author became one of its leading figures. Accordingly, it is now available on several websites in many translations.

Content defended the hacker manifesto ethical principles and conveys the spirit of optimism that prevailed at that time mostly among young computer enthusiasts or hackers. The article criticizes the society that loud Blankenship try to maintain the existing balance of power through control and economic exploitation of information and knowledge. The author provides the hacker in the true sense opposite, one driven by curiosity individual, interested in a free and equal access to information. Blankenship is suing the company, wars, assassinations, and weapons of mass destruction authorizes, this pursuit of knowledge criminalizing However, as hypocritical and mendacious.