The illusion of accuracy

Don't take log files as absolute truth. They're only as reliable as the systems that generated them.

It seems likely that I am one of the vanishingly small people in the country who has no interest at all in the latest Harry Potter book.

The last in a phenomenally successful series, its release was accompanied by midnight openings of bookstores, queues of fans in costumes and the like. In true 21st-century style there was also a copy leaked on the internet.

There were, of course, plenty of spyware-baited fake editions floating around but, apparently, some copies of the printed book were "accidentally" released early, and one enterprising fan decided to photograph them and distribute them online.

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