If there are any mistakes remaining in this FAQ list, I'd be astonished. If you visit Seebs' IAQ page, please think twice before emailing him with corrections. All is not as it seems. The Jargon File One thing that betrays the media's ignorance is their inability to understand programming jargon, which is why they call crackers hackers. Hackers are not malicious meddlers, but keen and skilful programmers.
Malicious meddlers do exist, unfortunately.
They are called crackers, not hackers. This is an amazing resource. Dozens of useful programs written in C, with full source code provided. Credit card number validation, julian date routines, binary coded decimal conversion, checksumming, ISBN validation, and much much more, courtesy of Bob Stout and his gang. Well, not quite.