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Originally Posted by jammies
I remember doing a project for the U of C around 2005 and the guy I was working with told me he had recently discovered a server in a closet that was connected to their network but nobody could tell him what it did or who put it there,. It was covered in dust and had obviously been there for years undisturbed. He wasn't allowed to take it down or disconnect because they were afraid it did something important.
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It was probably an old Linux box that was running the key card server or something like that. You can just bury those things in a corner somewhere and never touch it again for a decade. Everyone uses the web interface to manage the cards and door access, etc, and they all just assume it's running off the DC or whatever, but nope. It's that old, brown piece of plastic sitting in the bottom of a closet covered in dust balls and spiderwebs that no one wants to touch.