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People will always find a way to hack things. Reminds me of an anecdote of a large tech company that used internal cloud-like storage, each team got a certain
by rmc 14y ago
People will always find a way to hack things.
Reminds me of an anecdote of a large tech company that used internal cloud-like storage, each team got a certain "budget". They "charged" people in pseduo-money. They had a charge per GB, obviously. But one team figured out that there was no charge based on filenames. So they just stored all the data in the filenames. Lots of 4K long filenames of 0 bytes meant they had free storage. :)
- Jare 14y agoI recall hearing about abuse of a storage service by saving data in the access logs (which were not billed) for 0-byte files.
- Spooky23 14y agoI did a similar thing for a virtual machine service. Inventory was counted at 2AM on the 15th of the month. We would have a "planned maintenance event" from 1-3AM on the 15th of the month for our 12x5 supported apps. Took two years to get busted ;)
- jlgreco 14y agoReminds me of the infamous compression challenge where one person tried to cheat and win the prize by storing data in filenames: http://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.htm http://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.htm