Loyd Blankenship (born 1965), 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.
[3] He authored the cyberpunk role-playing sourcebook GURPS Cyberpunk, the manuscript of which was seized in a 1990 raid of Steve Jackson Games headquarters by the U.S. Secret Service.
[4][5] The raid resulted in the subsequent legal case Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service.
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