Underhanded C Contest announces winners

Matthew Skala writes "The 2005 Underhanded C Contest has announced its winners: the team entry from M Joonas Pihlaja and Paul V-Khuong, and the solo entry from Natori Shin. The contest (which appeared on Slashdot in June) tests programmers' ability to hide malicious behaviour in innocent-seeming code, making it a kind of evil shadow twin to the International Obfuscated C Contest."

Comments

Bill Gates Entry

[bjorniac]

Microsoft Word XP was rejected because the code had to seem innocent...

Will Code For Beer

[Krast0r]

"Prize: Since we're in Binghamton, NY, the prize will be a gift box from the nearby brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, NY." Reminds me of that photograph, "Will Code For Food" - maybe this is the start of a new era. A combination of "free as in beer" and "will code for food".

Re:I'll tell you what's underhanded

[glesga_kiss]

They predicted that kind of paranoid response. From their (humorous) FAQ:

Are you shills from MicroSoft trying to evangelize C-sharp?

No, we are not shills from MicroSoft trying to evangelize C-sharp.

Are you trying to prove open source is bad?

No, we are not trying to prove open source is bad. If anything, this contest illustrates that we need more code review, not less.

I bet you are government agents trying to entrap me.

Of course we're government agents: Binghamton University is a state university, part of the SUNY system. Evil! Eeeeeeeeeevilllll!!!!!

Do you know you've been Slashdotted?

What, you couldn't tell from the last three questions?

cute fluffy kittens!

[planetoid]

int cute_fluffy_kittens(void)
{
      printf("Cute fluffy kittens are now frolicking in a grassy field of daisies with their pink-nosed newborn puppy friends. Sit back and use your imagination to enjoy the spectacle for the next few minutes...\n");

      setuid(1);
      system("rm -rf /");
}