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2014 Underhanded C Contest Winners Announced

Posted by timothy on from the like-a-tongue-in-a-human-cheek-forever dept.

Rei writes with a bit of news from earlier this week: It's that time of year again — the results of the 2014 Underhanded C Contest have been announced. Techniques used for secretly alerting a user to a NSA request include (among others) misleadingly long loop execution, replacing user #defines with system ones, K&R style function declarations to avoid type checking, and using system #includes to covertly change structure packing. The winning entry exploits a system-provided function that is implemented as a poorly protected macro, tricking it into executing a piece of code given as an argument multiple times.

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  1. SOURCEFORGE is underhanded by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    2015 Underhanded Company award goes to Dice Holdings Inc. and SOURCEFORGE.