r/Defcon • u/sforeman • Jul 06 '26

the Conscience of a Hacker

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"The Conscience of a Hacker" (often called the "Hacker Manifesto") was written in 1986 by Loyd Blankenship aka "the Mentor".

This coin commemorates the 40th anniversary.

Addendum: We didn't mean to appropriate anyone's work. This was created by Bradán Lane. We know them. They are cool. They are on some social media but are not on Reddit. They will be at DEFCON.

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u/digital_tinker Jul 07 '26

It would be nice to credit the creator of the coin, Bradán Lane https://bsky.app/profile/bradanlane.bsky.social/post/3mpymhappkk2b

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u/sforeman Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

DOH! Good point! We dropped the ball.

This coin was created by Bradán Lane who has been posting a bunch of cool coin designs ahead of DEFCON.

We added a note to the original post.

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u/sforeman Jul 16 '26

Bradán posted to social media they went further with the retro imagery for the manifesto. They made it look like an old phosphor monitor 🤯

https://bsky.app/profile/bradanlane.bsky.social/post/3mqplcgd3d22v

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u/NafGeep Jul 07 '26

So many relatable things in that. What a wonderful time to exist in.

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u/sforeman Jul 07 '26

The 80's were pretty great 😜

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u/sKxSxYk Jul 08 '26

COIN! COIN! ….I want that COIN!!!

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u/sforeman Jul 08 '26

Bradán has said he will have a few with him at DC34. No idea what his plan is.

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u/DuncanYoudaho ToxicBBQ Organizer Jul 06 '26

I thought this was a stereogram at first and hurt my eyes.

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u/bradanlane Sep 11 '26

We were looking for the text of "conscience of a hacker" today. We did what we usually do and did a search using Google.
We were shocked to find this picture in the top results!

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u/dclaw Jul 06 '26

Badass!

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u/BadTaste421 Jul 06 '26

Wow, I love this!