ThoughtfulChaos

Good old Slashdot had this article about The First Annual Underhanded C Contest.

A snippet from the contest site

we hereby announce an annual contest to write innocent-looking C code implementing malicious behavior. In many ways this is the exact opposite of the Obfuscated C Code Contest: in this contest you must write code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet it must fail to perform at its apparent function. To be more specific, it should do something subtly evil.

Sounds interesting.

And in the time honoured tradition of Slashdot comments, the comments to this article itself has many possible and humourous candidates,

My favourite;
int main () { WinExec ("iexplore.exe"); }

Good old Google has announced yet another interesting contest. This one titled "Summer of Code" aims to introduce students to the world of open source software development.

Highlights:

• Only for students.
• Bounty of $4500 to each student who successfully completes a project by the end of the summer.
• PDF Flyer that gives the low down details about the contest.
• Lots of eminent mentoring organizations. These include Drupal, Fedora Core, Gnome Foundation, KDE, The Mono Project, NMap, OpenOffice, Perl Foundation, Ubuntu Linux and of course Google. The actual list is much longer and is available on the contest home page.
• There is a high volume mailing list for discussions related to the contest.