Bill Landreth

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]}