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The 29th International Obfuscated C Contest winners were announced, featuring programs that compile and run but are deliberately impossible to understand from source code. One winning entry simulates a Lichtenberg figure. Security researcher LaurieWired achieved only a 50% success rate predicting last year's entries from decompiled binaries.
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