Hacking Code

For this chapter, hacking means gaining illicit access to a computer or network by various tricky means. The goal is to give programmers the tools and knowledge to prevent code being hacked by criminal hackers. This chapter offers techniques to hack programs by providing them with bad data. Another form of hacking is social engineering where people are scammed into revealing their passwords, or other personal data by sophisticated methods over the phone, social media, or email; however, that is a topic for a different book.