<story><title>27th International Obfuscated C Code Contest winners published</title><url>https://www.ioccc.org/2020/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dane-pgp</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s great that this contest has been running for so long and still produces interesting new approaches, but I wish there were more work being done in the field of &lt;i&gt;underhanded&lt;/i&gt; code contests, e.g. [0].&lt;p&gt;One area of technology that seems to have continued the work of discovering underhanded techniques is the realm of cryptocurrency, specifically the &amp;quot;Solidity Underhanded Contest&amp;quot;.  The results for 2020 are here[1], which links to (spoiler alert) a great trick on line 65 here[2] (select the line character by character with a mouse to reveal it).&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Underhanded_C_Contest&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Underhanded_C_Contest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.soliditylang.org&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;solidity-underhanded-contest-winners&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.soliditylang.org&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;solidity-underhande...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ethereum&amp;#x2F;solidity-underhanded-contest&amp;#x2F;blob&amp;#x2F;master&amp;#x2F;submissions_2020&amp;#x2F;submission11_RobertMCForster&amp;#x2F;contracts&amp;#x2F;TimelockUpgrade.sol#L65&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;ethereum&amp;#x2F;solidity-underhanded-contest&amp;#x2F;blo...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>27th International Obfuscated C Code Contest winners published</title><url>https://www.ioccc.org/2020/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Stevvo</author><text>The winning entry is very creative!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ioccc.org&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;carlini&amp;#x2F;prog.c&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ioccc.org&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;carlini&amp;#x2F;prog.c&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>