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QurazyQuisp

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I never look into other peoples stuff when I'm fixing a computer, while they did give me full access to do what ever needs to be done, I don't see a need to look into other people's personal life, I'm sure I'd see things I'd rather not see... How ever, if it was a hot girl's computer I was fixing, perhaps I'd bend that rule once.
 

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
When I worked at CompUSA it was standard practice to do a search on *.mpg, wmv, mp3, avi. Most of my pr0n collection was gained this way.
One time we went to a lady's house to get her computers networked and on her desktop was a folder that said private pictures. Well being a guy and her being hot as hell, I made myself a copy and upon viewing, they we all pics of her playing with herself.

Desktop is a great place to put "private pictures," huh? :p
 

Maxspeed996

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Originally posted by: DeadByDawn
A couple that knew a friend of mine had some computer problems, so they called a pc repair place. They said the HD was bad, and installed a new one. Flash forward a couple of weeks the phone rang. It was a guy from the other side of the country that bought the "bad" HD off of ebay and ran data recovery software on it. I think they paid the guy a couple hundred to not share all the nice photos of the wife with the rest of the internet and get the old HD back.

OMG!! THAT'S CRAZY!!!
 

VTHodge

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My GF's roommate just got a new camera and I took a peek at the SD card. But alas, just birthday party pictures. :(
 

Maxspeed996

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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
When I worked at CompUSA it was standard practice to do a search on *.mpg, wmv, mp3, avi. Most of my pr0n collection was gained this way.
One time we went to a lady's house to get her computers networked and on her desktop was a folder that said private pictures. Well being a guy and her being hot as hell, I made myself a copy and upon viewing, they we all pics of her playing with herself.

Desktop is a great place to put "private pictures," huh? :p

:Q
 

randomlinh

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Originally posted by: DeadByDawn
A couple that knew a friend of mine had some computer problems, so they called a pc repair place. They said the HD was bad, and installed a new one. Flash forward a couple of weeks the phone rang. It was a guy from the other side of the country that bought the "bad" HD off of ebay and ran data recovery software on it. I think they paid the guy a couple hundred to not share all the nice photos of the wife with the rest of the internet and get the old HD back.

and i'm sure they made it on the internet anyway.
 

lokiju

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My friend was working on his (female) cousins PC one day and I suggest to do a search to pics and vid's just to see if she had pron since I thought It'd be funny.

Anyways, he finds a video so we open it on up and he freaks out and closes it as fast as he can, I'm all like WTF's the issue? and he said "Thats my cousin and her BF having sex!!!!" I was LMAO at that and convinced him to play more than the split second he did of it, turns out it just looked like her and her BF at a glance but wasn't, but was still funny as hell the way he reacted! :laugh:

Also, not so funny but I was working for the IT department for a sheriffs department in '99 doing Y2k readiness, so I would either replace really old PC's with newer Dell's or if it was good enough I'd just upgrade the memory and add a hard drive, anyways I was working on this one PC in an office at a detention center and when I was copying over files I noticed some called something that caught my eye (don't recall now what it was called) but when I looked at the folder there was a bunch of kiddie pron in it, this was a PC that belonged to an officer in his locked office that wasn't accessed by anyone but him, he was not doing any investigating or anything like that either since they had a whole department dedicated to that sort of thing which he had nothing to do with! I called up my boss cause I felt something had to be said but also didn't know how to treat it, my boss said after some thinking about it to just delete all the files in question, which I did.

I was younger then and if that happened now though I don't know if I would have been so willing to comply with just deleting the files, still bugs me to think about sometimes.

 

Maxspeed996

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Now that's a pile of crap to find some of that!! That would drive me nuts to think back on something like that years later. Because you have to wonder......what was up with that whacko?
 

Dritnul

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nother good way to check for pr0n sites is the cookies a lot of noobs will clear their history but wont remember to clear their cookies
 

Toastedlightly

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Finding out that your friend's 15 y/o sister is a porn junky (and not the good kind, the kind that goes to the site that install hella spyware!) is pretty humerous. What you do with that information is also important (horray for us having a slave for 2 days!)
 

imported_michaelpatrick33

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Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
When I worked at CompUSA it was standard practice to do a search on *.mpg, wmv, mp3, avi. Most of my pr0n collection was gained this way.
One time we went to a lady's house to get her computers networked and on her desktop was a folder that said private pictures. Well being a guy and her being hot as hell, I made myself a copy and upon viewing, they we all pics of her playing with herself.

Obviously you should be fired and arrested. That is not in the least humorous or funny.
This gets a big :roll: Idiot.
 

GTaudiophile

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A friend of mine use to work for GA Tech ReNet. He went around and fixed problems that students had in the dorms, etc.

Anyway, one day he was working on a girl's PC and found kiddie pr0n, hardcore stuff. I don't quite remember how it ended but am pretty sure he reported her.