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William Troy Landreth[1] (born April 5, 1963)[2] is an American hacker notable for his cracking activities during the early 1980s within a cracking club called "The Inner Circle".[3] MySpace cofounder, Tom Anderson (Lord Flathead)[4] was an associate.[5] In 1984, Landreth was convicted of hacking computer systems, and accessing NASA and Department of Defense computer data.[6] In 1986, he disappeared[7][8] (from which he re-appeared a year later).[9][10] Landreth's and Howard Rheingold's book, Out of the Inner Circle: A Hacker's Guide to Computer Security, published in 1986,[11][12][13] is considered a best-seller.[9]

In 1989, Landreth was homeless.[1]

As of 2016 he was still homeless.[14][9][15][16]

Works

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  • Bill Landreth; Howard Rheingold. Out of the Inner Circle: A Hacker's Guide to Computer Security (Microsoft Press, 1985) ISBN 0-914845-36-5

References

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  1. ^ a b "Genius Computer Hacker Now Living On The Streets". AP NEWS. March 20, 1989. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  2. ^ "William T Landreth, Born 04/05/1963 in California". CaliforniaBirthIndex.org. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  3. ^ Landreth, Bill. "Confessions Of A Hacker: Here Is The Cracker'S Story Of Adolescent Innocence And Ingenuity, Mixed With Corporate And Government Intrigue, That Ultimately Led To His Arrest By The FBI". Sun Sentinel. Archived from the original on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  4. ^ Penenberg, Adam L. (13 October 2009). Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today's Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves. Hachette Books. p. 166. ISBN 978-1-4013-9493-6.
  5. ^ Arrington, Michael (30 August 2008). "MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life "WarGames" Hacker in 1980s". TechCrunch. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  6. ^ "A brief history of hacking". encyclopedia.kaspersky.com. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  7. ^ Gorman, Tom (11 December 1986). "A Hacker Vanishes : Computer Whiz, Missing Since September, a Source of Mystery". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  8. ^ "A Hacker Vanishes Computer Whiz, Missing Since September, a Source of Mystery". Los Angeles Times. December 11, 1986. ProQuest 292511917. Archived from the original on 2016-03-21. Retrieved February 3, 2011.
  9. ^ a b c "Hacker Is Down And Out In San Diego". The Sydney Morning Herald. April 3, 1989. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
  10. ^ "Bill Landreth: The Cracker & Out Of The Inner Circle & Pig Sty". September 26, 2011. Retrieved April 9, 2013.[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ Landreth, Bill; Rheingold, Howard (1985). Out of the Inner Circle: A Hacker's Guide to Computer Security. Microsoft Press. ISBN 978-0-14-087139-5 – via archive.org.Open access icon
  12. ^ Marc Rogers (ed.) Psychology and Computer Crime Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, Purdue University
  13. ^ Rogers, Marc (2000). "A New Hacker Taxonomy". Graduate Studies, Dept. of Psychology University of Manitoba. Purdue University. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  14. ^ "The Untold Story of the Teen Hackers Who Transformed the Early Internet". Gizmodo. April 14, 2016. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
  15. ^ Spafford, Eugene H. (January 1992). "Are computer hacker break-ins ethical?" (PDF). Journal of Systems and Software. 17 (1): 41–47. doi:10.1016/0164-1212(92)90079-Y. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  16. ^ Halvorson, Michael J. (29 April 2020). "Hackers and cyberpunks". Code Nation. doi:10.1145/3368274.3368282. ISBN 9781450377584. S2CID 218489632. Retrieved 23 November 2022.


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