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Bizarre Secrets Found Investigating Corrupt Winamp Skins
Longtime Slashdot reader sandbagger shares a blog post from Meta Engineer Jordan Eldredge, with the caption: A biography of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, weird images, a worm.exe, random images, encrypted files, a gift a dad in Thailand had made for his two-and-a-half-year-old son, and much more could...
Longtime Slashdot reader sandbagger shares a blog post from Meta Engineer Jordan Eldredge, with the caption: A biography of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, weird images, a worm.exe, random images, encrypted files, a gift a dad in Thailand had made for his two-and-a-half-year-old son, and much more could be found when investigating corrupt WinAmp files. This ended up leading me down a series of wild rabbit holes..." In all, Eldredge found more than 16 distinct types of items -- most of which are completely random but intriguing nonetheless. "It's so interesting how if you get a large enough number of things that were created by real people, you can end up finding all kinds of crazy stuff!"
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