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Yay! Third place in the 2008 Underhanded C Contest.

The Underhanded C Contest is about writing a program that would pass a code review, but secretly does evil things, and where the covert behaviour can plausibly be explained away as a bug. This year's challenge was to write a program that would black out one or more rectangles of an image, but secretly retain the information somewhere in the output image. The results were announced today, and apparently I got a third place! Do check it out, the winning entry is really clever!

Here is my contribution:

Posted Wednesday 14-Oct-2009 19:34

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Anonymous
Sun 2-May-2010 17:53
A clever trick indeed, but there's no way that code would pass a code review at any serious company in the real world.
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Linus Åkesson
Mon 3-May-2010 06:24
A clever trick indeed, but there's no way that code would pass a code review at any serious company in the real world.

I live in the real world, actually, and the correctness of your statement clearly depends on what qualifies as a serious company. You must think most of them aren't.
Anonymous
Sun 25-Aug-2013 23:09
Those underhanded C codes never pass my code review. I know C programming, and I can see that it is wrong. If you don't see it, you aren't a real C programmer.