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Re:OpenSSH Backdoors by mmh0000 on Friday August 23, 2024 @03:39PM (#41332343)
Whenever these stories come up, I like to remind people about the Underhanded C Code Contest[1] and the IOCCC[2]

TL;DR: Clever C programmers can hide very evil shit in plain sight.

[1] https://www.underhanded-c.org/ [2] https://www.ioccc.org/

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Re:OpenSSH Backdoors by dkga on Friday August 23, 2024 @04:49PM (#41332967)
Wow, I was definitely not aware of this.
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Re:OpenSSH Backdoors by cortesoft on Friday August 23, 2024 @09:47PM (#41334865)
What happened to the underhanded c contest? Seems the last one was in 2016?
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Re:OpenSSH Backdoors by thelastparadise on Friday August 23, 2024 @11:20PM (#41335289)
Maybe because absolutely no one trusts any C code anymore.
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Re:OpenSSH Backdoors by ruk_booze on Saturday August 24, 2024 @05:32AM (#41336846)
How sad to see that this is no more.

I helped out reviewing the winning contribution[1] by Linus Åkesson, for what I now know was the final contest.

Linus, aka ”LFT”, is a remarkable and truly talented person in so many ways. If you haven’t heard of him before, I suggest you check out all of his projects.

[1] https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/underhanded/2015.ph...

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