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Re:SQLite as an Application File Format (2014) by darkpuma on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @04:25AM (#18756708)
There are plenty of things that can cause it: https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html
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Re:SQLite as an Application File Format (2014) by ineedasername on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @09:01AM (#18757422)
Nice of them to publish a guide for those who enjoy corrupted data :)

I particularly liked Fake capacity USB sticks. I didn't even realize that was a think. I can't even...

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Re:SQLite as an Application File Format (2014) by JoeAltmaier on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @09:03AM (#18757428)
Oh this goes way back. The first SSD drives from Hong Kong advertised double or quadruple their capacity - you didn't find out until you tried to write the N+1th block and it overwrote the 0th block. Back in the 90's?
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