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The First Annual Underhanded C Contest

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the delightfully-malicious dept.

Xcott Craver writes "We have just announced a new annual contest, the Underhanded C Contest, to write clear, readable, innocent-looking C code that implements malicious behavior. The object is to hide evil functionality that survives visual inspection of the source. The prize is beer."

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  1. Re:Why? by Nf1nk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To find subtley malicous code in an open source project, we first must know what it looks like. Having contests like these creates a sample base of dangerous code and clever tricks to read and learn from.
    It is sort of like the computer version of a bomb squad.

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