William Troy Landreth
(born April 5, 1963)
is an American
hacker
A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who uses their technical knowledge to achieve a goal or overcome an obstacle, within a computerized system by non-standard means. Though the term ''hacker'' has become associated in popu ...
notable for his
cracking activities during the early 1980s within a cracking club called "The Inner Circle".
cofounder,
Tom Anderson
Thomas Anderson (born November 8, 1970) is an American technology entrepreneur and co-founder of the social networking service, social networking website Myspace, which he founded in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe. He was later president of Myspa ...
(Lord Flathead)
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
(from which he re-appeared a year later).
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.
In 1989, Landreth was homeless.
Bill Landreth is currently homeless in Santa Monica.
Works
* Bill Landreth;
Howard Rheingold
Howard Rheingold (born 1947) is an American critic, writer, and teacher, known for his specialties on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities (a t ...
. ''
Out of the Inner Circle: A Hacker's Guide to Computer Security'' (Microsoft Press, 1985)
References
1964 births
American computer criminals
Living people
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