Covert Fingerprinting "annual contest to write, innocent-looking C code implementing malicious behavior"

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Underhanded C Contest: Covert Fingerprinting "annual contest to write
innocent-looking C code implementing malicious behavior"
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Introduction

Inspired by Daniel Horn's Obfuscated V contest in the fall of 2004, 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.

Every year, we will propose a challenge to coders to solve a simple data 
processing problem, but with covert malicious behavior. Examples include 
miscounting votes, shaving money from financial transactions, or leaking 
information to an eavesdropper. The main goal, however, is to write 
source code that easily passes visual inspection by other programmers.
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