Comment by swordswinger12

Does it count if they're weird misconfigurations which may or may not have been set by a human?

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/08/16/window/ http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2011/07/02/ninja/ http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/01/08/blackhole/ http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/01/18/alertstorm/

There are many more. Unless specifically noted, they all happened to me at some point.

Here are two more:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html

Sorry, no links, typing quickly:

* F-Secure's blog and some other AV companies' blogs

* Ramond Chen's The Old New Thing

* Anything written by Mark Russinovich

* Slightly off topic, but http://www.devttys0.com/ manages some crazy reverse engineering feats, which I feel are similar to this story.