Erik Bloodaxe

Who is Erik Bloodaxe?

Chris Goggans, who used the name Erik Bloodaxe in honor of the Viking king Eric I of Norway, is a founding member of the Legion of Doom group, and a former editor of Phrack Magazine. Loyd Blankenship, aka The Mentor, described Goggans/Bloodaxe as "the best hacker I ever met".

Goggans was raided by the US Secret Service on March 1, 1990, but was not charged.

In a 1994 interview he claimed he had never engaged in malicious hacking, explaining:

“Malicious hacking pretty much stands against everything that I adhere to. You always hear people talking about this so called hacker ethic and I really do believe that. I would never wipe anything out. I would never take a system down and delete anything off of a system. Any time I was ever in a system, I'd look around the system, I'd see how the system was architectured, see how the directory structures differed from different types of other operating systems, make notes about this command being similar to that command on a different type of system, so it made it easier for me to learn that operating system.

"Sure, I was in The Legion of Doom. I have been in everybody's system. But I have never been arrested.