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The 7th Underhanded C Contest Is Online

Posted by samzenpus on from the back-again dept.

Xcott Craver writes The 7th Underhanded C Contest is now open. The goal of the contest is to write code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet somehow exhibits evil behavior that cannot be seen even when staring at the source code. The winners from 2013 are also online, and their clever and insightful submissions make for fun reading.

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  1. New twist this time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Previously the contest has been about doing nefarious stuff to the user of the program while keeping the code innocuous.
    This time, they want you to clandestinely warn users of government spying. It's a complete about-face on the definition of "underhanded". I love it.

    1. Re:New twist this time by Wonko+the+Sane · · Score: 3, Funny

      This NSA recruiting program has to become more subtle in order to attract participants.

  2. Re:The previous entry page leads to 404 by Xcott+Craver · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's not a defunct link to previous entries, but a defunct link to a previous version of the contest site. I've un-defuncteded it to more recent previous version of the contest site, but soon that will also be defunctitated or defunctified, or defunctored.

    You can see the previous entries by scrolling down, or by selecting "past years" from the menu bar on the web page.

  3. Re:The previous entry page leads to 404 by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've un-defuncteded it to more recent previous version of the contest site, but soon that will also be defunctitated or defunctified, or defunctored.

    What defunct are you talking about? ;-)

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  4. Re:The previous entry page leads to 404 by oodaloop · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've un-defuncteded

    So it's totally funct now?

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  5. Re:Not so clever by BlackPignouf · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah right.
    Something like this http://www.gergely.risko.hu/de... would never get committed.

  6. OpenSSL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry guys but this year's winner hands down is OpenSSL.

    1. Re:OpenSSL by swillden · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sorry guys but this year's winner hands down is OpenSSL.

      No, underhanded C submissions have to be readable, clear and straightforward. OpenSSL is none of those.

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