Security hacker laws against computer hacking. Neal Patrick testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on September 26, 1983, about the dangers of computer hacking, and six bills concerning computer crime were introduced in the House that year. As a result of these laws against computer criminality, white hat, grey hat and black hat hackers try to distinguish themselves from each other, depending on the legality of their activities. These moral conflicts are expressed in The Mentor's "The Hacker Manifesto", published 1986 in "Phrack". Use of the term hacker meaning computer criminal was also advanced by the title "Stalking the Wily Hacker",
Hacker Manifesto we were doing it. The article is quoted several times in the 1995 movie "Hackers", although in the movie it is being read from an issue of the hacker magazine "2600", not the historically accurate "Phrack". The Mentor gave a reading of "The Hacker Manifesto" and offered additional insight at H2K2. It is also an item in the game "Culpa Innata". Hacker Manifesto The Conscience of a Hacker (also known as The Hacker Manifesto) is a small essay written January 8, 1986 by a computer security hacker who went by the handle (or pseudonym) of The Mentor (born Loyd Blankenship),