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Summary:

The problem: When provisioning a disk, the provider reuses an old disk that has old customer data on it. Part of the disk is overwritten with the OS image but the rest is not.

The fix: Zero out the disk. Either when de-provisioning it, or when provisioning it.

The author's ability to turn 49 words into 2,543 words is quite impressive!

Also: we couldn't actually tell you this until now because we don't trust some of you.

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