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I know someone who scored a couple of very large VAXen from the prison service, and discovered they contained a lot - really a lot - of records of prisoner details that should absolutely not have made it out of the door.

Cue a couple of police and prison service cars rolling up outside his house and disgorging a lot of very beardy old sysadmins, who copied everything off onto modern media and wiped the drivers. They then offered the guy a contract to maintain the VAXen they still had, and help in the project to transfer stuff onto more modern databases.

Things became interesting when the guy got jailed for a few months for a minor incident that escalated a bit, but still needed to be given access to the prison service computers...



Edit: *drives




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