Here comes the third year of small file competition organized by a group of security researcher or reverse engineer:

tmpout.sh/bggp/3/

Unlike the prior contests in 2020 and 2021, this year's contest will involve a lot of creative thinking.
Now I will become more like ethical hacker...
I don't dare to try the last two scenario. If I were able to create EXE that crashes Windows, I will be in the tech news headline tomorrow. Smile

This contest runs from June 17th 2022 to August 19th 2022 (New York time)

@angch, I see you followed @binarygolf on Twitter. Nice to see you there! This year contest is more challenging, isn't it? 

Looks like I have no luck in crashing random media player. 



Me trying to fool "aplay" to play 0-byte and 1-byte MP3/WAV.

Look! My second attempt. This time with DOS emulator (DOSBox).

I downloaded Enhanced DEBUG from the Internet (since DOSBox does not include DEBUG.COM/EXE) and assemble a small COM program.



It is 5 bytes executable. Upon running BOOT.COM, this is the result in DOSBox! (Sadly, not considered "crash")