This C code is disgusting.  But also really, really clever.

The International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) has been consistently breaking human minds since 1984.  This year's winners are out of control.

But hey, I'm a Professional Reverse Engineer.

Time to find out:

- Can government-grade tools defeat unreadable code?
- Hiding Salmon in Unicode is not very effective
- Why did I just get Rickrolled?

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Timestamps:

00:00 The World's Worst (Best?) Code Competition
01:33 My Gut Feelings (Ranked)
04:03 Rick Astley's Obfuscated C
07:05 Virtual Machine of Doom
10:05 Preprocessor Raytracing?
13:07 Teeny Tiny LLM Engine
16:53 Vi would you do this
20:01 Unicode Salmon Recipes
22:19 Growing ASCII Trees
24:50 A Calculator that speaks English
28:56 Professional Reverse Engineer vs Programmers

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A reverse engineer analyzes obfuscated C code submissions from the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) using Ghidra decompiler. The analysis reveals surprising implementations including a Rick Roll animation, a complete Doom game running in a virtual machine, a 3D renderer, an LLM chatbot with multiple personalities, a Vim clone, and other creative programs. The experiment demonstrates both the effectiveness of reverse engineering tools and the ingenuity of obfuscated code techniques.

This C code should be ILLEGAL.  It's also fantastic.

<p>Is it just me or she really talks in a way that makes it seem superficial? wtf</p>
