''Out of the Inner Circle: A Hacker's Guide to Computer Security'' is a book by

Bill Landreth William Troy Landreth (born April 5, 1963) is an American Hacker (computer security), hacker notable for his Password cracking, cracking activities during the early 1980s within a cracking club called "The Inner Circle". MySpace cofounder, Tom Ande ...

and

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 ...

, published in 1985 by

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and distributed by

Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster () is an American publishing company and a subsidiary of Paramount Global. It was founded in New York City on January 2, 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster was the third largest publ ...

(). The book was created to provide insight into the ways and methods of the hacking community in days before

internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...

became prevalent. Although largely outdated and nostalgic, it does show what brought on many of the current trends we see in network security today.

References

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