Bill Landreth

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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]

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  1. 1 2 "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. 1 2 3 "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 logo PLoS transparent.svg
  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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