The creators behind the long-running Internet contest to write bizarre and unnecessarily complex C programming code, called the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC), have resurrected their ...

The International Obfuscated C Contest – the contest to create the most useful, useless, or unique program in absolutely unreadable C code – has just posted the winners of the 2013 contest. Of the ...

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A new contest offers a collection of every William Gibson book to the first person who successfully reverse-engineers the encryption protecting Gibson’s “Agrippa (a book of the dead.)” A new contest ...

The contest is not necessarily looking for badly written code. In fact, writing truly obfuscated code requires a “deep understanding of the language,” Noll said, noting that winners in years past have ...