ABSTRACT
The Legion of Doom (LOD) was an assembly of hackers that were active from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Throughout its glory days from approximately 1984 to 1991, LOD was generally considered to be the most proficient hacking team globally. Unlike the Masters of Deception, there were differing beliefs as to just what the LOD really was. The LOD published the Legion of Doom Technical Journals and contributed to the package of computer hacking knowledge. They looked at themselves as not causing any direct impairment to the telephone systems and computer networks they seized. Many LOD participants were arrested and prosecuted for instigating suspected harm to various computer and telephone systems. In 1992, several members of LOD assembled and founded LODCOM, Inc., which collected old hacker bulletin board messages to archive, which was later to be sold.
