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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.

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

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