I was surprised to find “Property of Acme Widgets, 301-555-1212” in the .EXE file from 0x6000 to 0x14FFF. The compiler had obviously just grabbed a big chunk of disk space and stuffed it into the file, without bothering to clear it first.
Via RobotWisdom, [1] Uncleared disk space and MSVC [2]
Even scarier are the articles about Microsoft [3] and nuclear material tracking. Shudder
[1] http://www.robotwisdom.com/