The First Annual Underhanded C Contest

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Submitted by varun on Sun, 12/06/2005 - 3:06pm.

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"); }

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