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by thetadot 1573 days ago
one of my favorite examples of fruitful redundancy is Cliff Stoll noticing a 75 cent discrepancy between two different accounting logs that let to the discovery of an intruder in the Lawrence Berkeley Lab network.

https://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espiona...