The Underhanded C Contest

This one is a doozy. It's the underhanded C contest. It's purpose is to have people write seemingly innocent code that actually performs some sort of nefarious activity. If anyone remembers the linux exploit that was attempted around about January 2005, where some code was introduced which had the subtle side effect of granting people root permission. It was noticed and killed off... but what if people have been doing this for a long time already?

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