Nudes, explicit videos etc... & IT technician SO EMBARRASSED, .........

me and my partner had quite a few of those. and pics etc etc. Had to recover the data from a broken computer though. Do you think the it person looked through them? ugh please just please kill me......

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Reply 1

whatisthis47

The IT technician will have seen worse.

Reply 2

DanB1991

I was speaking to one IT technician for a local PC shop.

Two or three times a year a bloke came in to get his PC wiped.... basically his missus went away and he wanted no trace of his searching history or internet habbits exposed when she got back!!!!

Turned out he was watching some messed up things, though nothing illegal or involving infertility or prostitutes..... but yeah as someone said earlier.... that guy would of seen worse!

Reply 3

Life_peer

Original post by DanB1991

Turned out he was watching some messed up things, though nothing illegal or involving infertility or prostitutes..... but yeah as someone said earlier.... that guy would of seen worse!

Do you understand that ‘have’ and ‘of’ are two different words? You're 23, I presume, so learn to spell, ffs!

Reply 4

DanB1991

Original post by Life_peer

Do you understand that ‘have’ and ‘of’ are two different words? You're 23, I presume, so learn to spell, ffs!

A couple of things...... A) That's grammar not spelling and B) Ta for being TFG.... the odd person is dyslexic you know?...

Reply 5

NathanW18

Original post by DanB1991

The guy paid a guy to delete his internet history, which takes 10 seconds?

Reply 6

DanB1991

Original post by NathanW18

The guy paid a guy to delete his internet history, which takes 10 seconds?

Haha that was the first comment.... but even then you can't truly ever delete internet history, just make it harder and harder to find it.

Reply 7

Ciel.

Original post by Vixen47

The IT technician will have seen worse.

Original post by DanB1991

Yeah guess you're both right but still.....

Original post by NathanW18

The guy paid a guy to delete his internet history, which takes 10 seconds?

It's actually not that simple but the wife probably wouldn't know how to access it anyway.

Reply 8

NathanW18

Original post by DanB1991

Haha that was the first comment.... but even then you can't truly ever delete internet history, just make it harder and harder to find it.

Original post by Ciel.

Yeah guess you're both right but still.....

It's actually not that simple but the wife probably wouldn't know how to access it anyway.

That was my thought process. Unless she was very good with computers, she isn't going to find anything if he deleted his history. Seems like a waste of money to me.

Reply 9

DiddyDec01

Original post by DanB1991

Haha that was the first comment.... but even then you can't truly ever delete internet history, just make it harder and harder to find it.

Pretty sure magnets delete history pretty effectively.

Reply 10

Skeptique

Yeah! its mostly their job to report pedos - they see it all.

Reply 11

DanB1991

Original post by DiddyDec

Pretty sure magnets delete history pretty effectively.

*If* someone tries hard enough, you can burn or even in all effective terms destroy the actual hardware, but it can still be pieced together and still recover large portions of the data.

Concerning degaussing, while in real terms, yes it will scramble the data to make it unreadable and make the hardware unusable, if someone wants the data badly enough they may be able to recover chunks of it.

Reply 12

whatisthis47

Original post by Ciel.

but still.....

Don't ever ever use those words. You're just making things long and difficult for yourself by thinking "but still...". Accept what we said and move on. It's not a big deal.

Reply 13

Ciel.

Original post by Skeptique

Yeah! its mostly their job to report pedos - they see it all.

Doesn't apply here, we're both in our twenties lol.

Original post by Vixen47

Don't ever ever use those words. You're just making things long and difficult for yourself by thinking "but still...". Accept what we said and move on. It's not a big deal.

I know but I've read this article about IT people stealing data (sexual content) and then publishing in (and earning money from it obviously) so I'm a bit paranoid.

Reply 14

Gears265

Original post by Ciel.

As someone with connections in the industry, yes he undoubtedly looked at them, it's part of the job to see if files are corrupted lol

Reply 15

Ciel.

Original post by Gears265

As someone with connections in the industry, yes he undoubtedly looked at them, it's part of the job to see if files are corrupted lol

Even if it wasn't a virus issue or anything? But simply restoring data?

Reply 16

Gears265

Original post by Ciel.

Even if it wasn't a virus issue or anything? But simply restoring data?

Very much so. Lost data is more vulnerable, especially if sections of code are missing, it could access memory it is not suppose to touch. He has to look at the files, and videos/pics are easy ones to start with so don't be surprised if he saw them. Why are you so concerned?

Reply 17

Ciel.

Original post by Gears265

Well, I'm embarrassed mostly, since the nudes and vids were of me and my partner (I wouldn't be bothered if it was 'normal' porn) and it's not something I ever wanted anyone to see. Plus I'm kinda worried that he might sell them somewhere or upload etc
Reading that http://www.alphr.com/news/262978/exposed-the-pc-repair-shops-that-rifle-through-your-photos-and-passwords made me kinda upset.

Reply 18

Gears265

Original post by Ciel.

He won't sell them. You don't work your *** off to get to the IT industry just to put yourself in the line of fire of the police. He will look at them, why wouldn't he, but I don't think he will think much since he has seen it many times.