The Underhanded C Contest
The Underhanded C Contest sounds like a lot of fun.
It’s a similar setup to the International Obfuscated C Code Contest, but the aim is pausible deniability when creating malicious code. The goal of this year’s contest is to write a simple piece of valid, portable C code that runs vastly more slowly on one Operating System than on another. The code must be able to pass cursory inspection, and under under closer scrutiny must appear to be caused by sheer naivete rather than by deliberate sabotage.