Reword the recent deobfuscation changes

In most cases the word was changed to 'obfuscation' as it was about
obfuscation, not deobfuscation. In some cases like 1995/leo since the
file was (in 1995/leo) about a secret switch it was changed to
'secret.md' (and 'secret.html') but there were others like that as well.

One entry had the words 'spoiling the size rule' but this had been
changed to 'deobfuscating the size rule' which was obviously wrong.

In the latter YYYY/README.md files the judges had written after some
entries (brief summaries) '...

    ...We'll stop spouting spoilers now. Have fun exploring all the
    entries!

but that was changed to:

    ...We'll stop spouting deobfuscation information now. Have fun
    exploring all the entries!

which wasn't really about deobfuscation but just a brief summary of what
the entries did.

And in the most problematic case (at least for me :-), 2018/ferguson) I
had put a joke in:

    ... but it's the only Easter egg I won't spoil

but it was changed to 'won't deobfuscate' which not only is not what it
is but it spoilt the joke.

In some cases the word was changed back to 'SPOILER' (or similar) but in
most cases not. I believe it should be better now. There are some
caveats, however, as below.

Although make find_missing_links is okay I do not remember if this will
catch links that refer to '%%REPO_URL%%' or other pandoc tokens. This
means I might have to go back to some earlier years to verify links are
okay. That should not take that much time I hope.

It might also be that some wording can still be improved some but it is
hoped this will be discovered when checking links and looking over the
manifest (which obviously changed).
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@@ -111,20 +111,22 @@ I decided it would be better this way...
These restrictions have been removed for your convenience.
The following lines describe how this program works; if you don't
want to know it at this time, please skip them.
want to know it at this time, please skip them. If this entry would
by some mistake win the contest, please do not rot13 this - I hate
rot13 spoilers since it is somewhat complicated on a Mac to
reverse them. Anyone out there should have enough discipline and
rot13 shouldn't be required, really. After all, we are not children
anymore :-)
You should have enough discipline to make an effort to understand
the code without reading the deobfuscation information below.
After all, we are not children anymore :-)
## Deobfuscation information
## Obfuscation information:
<hr style="width:10%;text-align:left;margin-left:0">
This paragraph is not part of the author's remarks, but is a helpful
gift from the judges; if you read too fast to stop yourself, this should
give you enough time to stop, which you really need to do RIGHT NOW if
you don't want to read the deobfuscation information: we mean it.
you don't want to read the obfuscation information: we mean it.
<hr style="width:10%;text-align:left;margin-left:0">
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@@ -481,16 +481,18 @@ My first private version would only run when compiled on a Friday.
I decided it would be better this way…
These restrictions have been removed for your convenience.</p>
<p>The following lines describe how this program works; if you don’t
want to know it at this time, please skip them.</p>
<p>You should have enough discipline to make an effort to understand
the code without reading the deobfuscation information below.
After all, we are not children anymore :-)</p>
<h2 id="deobfuscation-information">Deobfuscation information</h2>
want to know it at this time, please skip them. If this entry would
by some mistake win the contest, please do not rot13 this - I hate
rot13 spoilers since it is somewhat complicated on a Mac to
reverse them. Anyone out there should have enough discipline and
rot13 shouldn’t be required, really. After all, we are not children
anymore :-)</p>
<h2 id="obfuscation-information">Obfuscation information:</h2>
<hr style="width:10%;text-align:left;margin-left:0">
<p>This paragraph is not part of the author’s remarks, but is a helpful
gift from the judges; if you read too fast to stop yourself, this should
give you enough time to stop, which you really need to do RIGHT NOW if
you don’t want to read the deobfuscation information: we mean it.</p>
you don’t want to read the obfuscation information: we mean it.</p>
<hr style="width:10%;text-align:left;margin-left:0">
<p>The source file needs to be present because the words are read from
it. The wordlist is encoded within the source using a 24 entry
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@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ is the same as
```
- The file [dorssel.html](dorssel.html) contains all the information needed to
understand this program. For deobfuscation information, try:
understand this program. For spoiler information, try:
``` <!---sh-->
./dorssel < dorssel.md
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@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ text that can be reversibly Morsified, i.e.</li>
<pre><code> ./dorssel &lt; dorssel.c | ./dorssel</code></pre>
<ul>
<li>The file <a href="dorssel.html">dorssel.html</a> contains all the information needed to
understand this program. For deobfuscation information, try:</li>
understand this program. For spoiler information, try:</li>
</ul>
<pre><code> ./dorssel &lt; dorssel.md</code></pre>
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@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ looping. To see the resulting program run, redirect the output from
and then compile it.
### Deobfuscation And Hints:
### Obfuscation hints:
The big key to this program is figuring out what the names of the
functions ought to be; a bit of research may allow you to guess at
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@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ looping. To see the resulting program run, redirect the output from
<code>schnitzi</code> into another file, like this</p>
<pre><code> ./schnitzi 4 &gt; sort.c</code></pre>
<p>and then compile it.</p>
<h3 id="deobfuscation-and-hints">Deobfuscation And Hints:</h3>
<h3 id="obfuscation-hints">Obfuscation hints:</h3>
<p>The big key to this program is figuring out what the names of the
functions ought to be; a bit of research may allow you to guess at
a few crucial ones.</p>
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@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ Count the number of non-whitespace characters in the source
file to find out what dark force drove me to write this ;-).
### Deobfuscation
### Obfuscation
First of all, if you run a C beautifier on the program (thereby of course losing
the nice code shape I worked so hard on ;-) ) the code will become a bit more
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@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ valid exit value to indicate failure (replace them with <code>EOF</code> resp.
<h3 id="special-notes">Special notes</h3>
<p>Count the number of non-whitespace characters in the source
file to find out what dark force drove me to write this ;-).</p>
<h3 id="deobfuscation">Deobfuscation</h3>
<h3 id="obfuscation">Obfuscation</h3>
<p>First of all, if you run a C beautifier on the program (thereby of course losing
the nice code shape I worked so hard on ;-) ) the code will become a bit more
readable.</p>