Carolyn Meinel

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Carolyn P. Meinel (CPM) (b. 1946) was notable in the hacking scene during the 1990s. Her books and website, called The Happy Hacker, are dedicated to "safe", or alternate means of "hacking." The information contained in her books has been called trivial for a user with moderate computer experience.

In August 1975, Meinel co-founded (with her then-husband, Keith Henson] the L5 Society, now known as the National Space Society, and was its president for several years.

Her father is Aden Meinel and mother is Marjorie Meinel.

Meinel married her first husband, Howard Keith Henson, in 1967 and divorced in 1989.

Meinel has four daughters.

On June 3, 1996, in a post on Usenet group sci.space.policy regarding the death of Dr. Timothy Leary, Meinel admitted to usage of the drug LSD as "one of the victims of brain damage who used it medically (back when it was legal) under a Ph.D. psychologist's supervision to help reprogram my brain to see normally once again."

Meinel has repeatedly been accused of slander and libel towards many individuals.^[1]