/*
 original, prints WTF to stdout and exits:

 8049074:       b8 04 00 00 00          mov    $0x4,%eax
 8049079:       bb 01 00 00 00          mov    $0x1,%ebx
 804907e:       68 57 54 46 0a          push   $0xa465457
 8049083:       89 e1                   mov    %esp,%ecx
 8049085:       89 c2                   mov    %eax,%edx
 8049087:       cd 80                   int    $0x80
 8049089:       31 c0                   xor    %eax,%eax
 804908b:       40                      inc    %eax
 804908c:       cd 80                   int    $0x80

*/

/* cursion 0: */

.section .text
.globl _start
_start:

 pushl  $0x000080cd
 pushl  $0x40c03180
 pushl  $0xcdc289e1
 pushl  $0x890a4654
 pushl  $0x57680000
 pushl  $0x0001bb00
 pushl  $0x000004b8
 jmp    *%esp

/* recursion 1: */

.section .text
.globl _start
_start:

 pushl  $0x000000e4
 pushl  $0xff000004
 pushl  $0xb8680001
 pushl  $0xbb006857
 pushl  $0x68000068
 pushl  $0x890a4654
 pushl  $0x68cdc289
 pushl  $0xe16840c0
 pushl  $0x31806800
 pushl  $0x0080cd68
 
 jmp    *%esp


"Original", "cursion 0" and "recursion 1" are different looking, but equivalents in net code.

this will eventually segfault due excessive stack use! 

Until so, This is a good obscurator.