A Hacker’s Point of View This post is long, long overdue: in fact, I should have started this website with this post. This is the original Hacker Manifesto by The Mentor, a member of the Legion of Doom hacker crew. It was first published 29 years ago today in Phrack magazine. A lifetime ago. It succinctly and eloquently expresses the nature, power, and aspirations of hacker culture, for good and for ill. In the decades since it was written, computers have become a much larger industry, but the hacker mindset and the Silicon Valley mindset should not be confused. There’s nothing in here about IPO’s, networking, or brogrammers. This is a simple, clear philosophical statement, and a call to action: both on the part of hackers, and on the part of the society with which they coexist. You can see the roots of anarcho-hacktivism right here, as tiny shoots about to go very, very big.