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It used to have an evil twin, the Underhanded C Contest [1] where the aim was to make an innocent program also do something evil in such a way that that it can
by maurits 14y ago
It used to have an evil twin, the Underhanded C Contest [1] where the aim was to make an innocent program also do something evil in such a way that that it can be plausibly denied as accidental when the 'bug' is detected in a code review.
[1] http://underhanded.xcott.com/ http://underhanded.xcott.com/
- Aurel1us 14y agoThanks alot. Love those stuff.
- JoachimSchipper 14y ago"Used to have"? The underhanded C contest is back!
- epsylon 14y agoThanks a lot for mentioning this, it's awesome !
- jplewicke 14y agoI'd love to see the converse, where the goal is to write code that looks really malicious but is actually a useful and helpful program -- like an apparent rootkit that actually implements a full webserver.