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by kmeisthax 1699 days ago
Since we're sharing weird unwiped data stories, I'll tell mine:

I bought an old Dell PowerVault (rackmountable backup tape library) a few years ago. Upon taking out the drive that was already in there, I found that it still had a tape inside of it. I was able to dump the tape contents; it's files were all gzipped TAR streams. Inside those archives were assets and project files for... a ProtectMyID.com commercial.