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Re:A software change allowed FTX to use client money by BurningFrog on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @08:26PM (#33978820)
Interesting.

The perfect crime would be to add a natural looking bug in the code that can be exploited by someone else, and then we split the money!

Re:A software change allowed FTX to use client money by gurchik on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @08:52PM (#33979044)
> The Underhanded C Contest is an annual contest to write innocent-looking C code implementing malicious behavior. In this contest you must write C 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 perform some specific underhanded task that will not be detected by examining the source code.

> 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.

http://underhanded-c.org/

Re:A software change allowed FTX to use client money by greenonions on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @08:55PM (#33979064)
Genius, but it has to be a bug that you haven't knowingly prevented before, otherwise it'd be suspicious.