Bill Landreth
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American hacker
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
[edit ]- 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
[edit ]- ^ a b "Genius Computer Hacker Now Living On The Streets". AP NEWS . March 20, 1989. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- ^ "William T Landreth, Born 04/05/1963 in California". CaliforniaBirthIndex.org. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Arrington, Michael (30 August 2008). "MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life "WarGames" Hacker in 1980s". TechCrunch . Retrieved 22 November 2022.
- ^ "A brief history of hacking". encyclopedia.kaspersky.com. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
- ^ Gorman, Tom (11 December 1986). "A Hacker Vanishes : Computer Whiz, Missing Since September, a Source of Mystery". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 22 November 2022.
- ^ "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年03月21日. Retrieved February 3, 2011.
- ^ a b c "Hacker Is Down And Out In San Diego". The Sydney Morning Herald . April 3, 1989. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
- ^ "Bill Landreth: The Cracker & Out Of The Inner Circle & Pig Sty". September 26, 2011. Retrieved April 9, 2013.[permanent dead link ]
- ^ 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
- ^ Marc Rogers (ed.) Psychology and Computer Crime Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, Purdue University
- ^ Rogers, Marc (2000). "A New Hacker Taxonomy". Graduate Studies, Dept. of Psychology University of Manitoba . Purdue University . Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- ^ "The Untold Story of the Teen Hackers Who Transformed the Early Internet". Gizmodo . April 14, 2016. Retrieved September 13, 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Halvorson, Michael J. (29 April 2020). "Hackers and cyberpunks". Code Nation. doi:10.1145/3368274.3368282. ISBN 9781450377584. S2CID 218489632 . Retrieved 23 November 2022.
