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.
[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.
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