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    Possible, but as the answers and comments describe it's /very/ much not a good idea. Commented Feb 17, 2012 at 17:38
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    @Shadur: There might be bad solutions but that doesn't make the idea uninteresting or a bad idea. Commented Feb 18, 2012 at 20:36
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    Indeed, I just found this question because I was considering what an analysis of the content from many captured /dev/nulls might turn up. I wouldn't want to do the research myself, but I'd love to read the results. (There would very likely be some ethical issues in "looking through people's trash" essentially, but the concept is interesting nonetheless.) Commented Nov 14, 2014 at 15:13