As a anarchistic punk teenager, The Hackers Manifesto deeply resonated with me.. I actually had it written on my bedroom wall.

Loyd Blankenship, better known by his pseudonym The Mentor, is an American computer hacker and writer. He has been active since the 1970s, when he was a member of the hacker groups Extasyy Elite and Legion of Doom.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyd_Blankenship

The problem is, in my experience, multiple founders have claimed their down with the hacker's manifesto, but time and time again they're demonstrated they're really just out for themselves. They always take a minor payday over sticking to the cause and vision.

You can't trust or take such people at their word.

What is this version? It has a ton of typos, "junk" instead of "heroin," and three instances of "Come on... Ain't Got All Day!!" where there are typically zero. Curious to know if this is authentic and Phrack [0] edited it in all the ways I just mentioned, or vice versa.

Anyway, I first read this some 20 years ago, and I get the same goosebumps now as I did then.

[0] http://www.phrack.org/archives/issues/7/3.txt

It's a console dump so the Come on lines are probably page breaks

The Jargon File has a facetious etymology for "hacker" as being originally a term for "someone who makes furniture with an axe".

Loyd Blankenship had, for a time, a business selling custom made furniture. So he's a hacker across all definitions of the word.

He's been known to post on hackernews, replete with bits of 90s leetspeek which gives me a frisson of joy and nostalgia: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=loydb

His account's "about" is prefaced with a link to his Wikipedia article. What a flex.

Now that's cool.

I always liked that character, the fed who seems to be getting turned to hacker culture by his investigation of the main cast.

you can see him dancing and enjoying himself at Kate Libby's party; he was the only fed agent in the movie that was kind of endearing.

Me too. I'm not sure he was even at Kate's party for work reasons. He seemed to be thoroughly into it for fun's sake.

And he was played by Marc Anthony (singer)!

now i feel like a fool for telling everyone it was mark antony (second triumvirate)

Just released in 4K UHD last month.

How did I not know this?! Ordered!

Thanks.

You think that's cool? It's commie bullshit!

It's cool!

Chill, Special Agent Bob.

Lol i hope you're being ironic. i don't agree with everything there, but the single word "commie" is enough to make me not agree with whatever you say. sounds pretty mccarthyist to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvK7V7U5Mck (although it cuts off right before the "commie" line)

is a movie quote.

see also "reactionaries"

In drawing comparison to the "Angry Young Men" [1] of British playwrights, did this piece of writing establish a new wave of "Angry Young Hackers"?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_young_men

I remember it from when he wrote it. Talk about some memories. Egad. Had that hanging on my wall for a long time.

Ahh..yeah, good stuff.

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.

I remember when programming was an act of curiosity and vision instead of a job where we feed bloated corporate behemoths another mouthful of our lives.

I was poor back then. The sure sign that I've sold my soul is that I'm not sure I know whether this is better.

What is with the weird spelling mistakes and typo’s? Are they intentional? Is there a hidden message in this? O.o

Written Loyd Blankenship of Legion of Doom.

I am more a kernel hacker.