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William Troy Landreth is an American hacker notable for his cracking activities during the early 1980s within a cracking club called "The Inner Circle". MySpace cofounder, Tom Anderson was an associate. In 1984, Landreth was convicted of hacking computer systems, and accessing NASA and Department of Defense computer data. In 1986, he disappeared. Landreth's and Howard Rheingold's book, Out of the Inner Circle: A Hacker's Guide to Computer Security, published in 1986, is considered a best-seller.
Elvis: What Happened? is a 1977 sensationalist book about the American singer Elvis Presley. The book, which is based on the personal accounts of three of Elvis' former bodyguards, went into detail on Presley's prescribed drug abuse. His death, only two weeks after the book's US publication in July 1977, made it highly topical and helped boost its sales to over three million.
Kristoffer Wilhelm von Hassel is an American boy known for being the world's youngest known hacker and notable for being the youngest "security researcher" listed on Microsoft's Security Techcenter as having exposed a security vulnerability. At the age of five, Hassel exposed security lapses in the Microsoft Live Xbox system, prompting wide media coverage, with some journalists highlighting the dropping age of hackers and their technology mastery.
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- ↑ Friedland, Nat (September 1985). "Hackers Forever!". Atari Magazine.
- ↑ O'Brien, Michael T. (1985-06-15). "Out of the Inner Circle (Book)". Library Journal . 110 (11): 68.
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