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| Thread ID: 125310 | 2012-06-19 22:31:00 | Stuff Headline ... Stolen sex pics are sport for computer repairers | SP8's (9836) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1282875 | 2012-06-19 22:31:00 | Story HERE (www.stuff.co.nz) ..... as if we didn't know THAT already ... :lol: | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1282876 | 2012-06-19 22:47:00 | They'll learn some day not to give strangers their sex pics :D | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1282877 | 2012-06-19 22:51:00 | Most PC repairers who have been in the job for a few years really couldnt be bothered searching for porn & 'sex pic's' on customers PC's. We have better things to do than to search for some dodgy pics of some less than pretty(ugly) people, especially when there is plenty of free stuff porn just a few mouse clicks away on the interwebs :banana |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1282878 | 2012-06-19 23:38:00 | I hope the computer repairer is prosecuted to the full extent of the law. When a customer hands over their private property for repair they expect client confidentiality and trust as in most other professional practices. It is totally unexceptable to go through a clients hard drive unless its part of fixing the problem, and even then, removing the files and publishing them is so wrong. It is cowboys like this that give the IT industry a bad name. The person concerned should be fired without question and the company he works for closed down - if he is the business owner, he should be banned from working on computers and his business closed down. On the occasions I have discovered explicit material on hard drives I have had to remove them, I burnt them to CD/DVD and handed them back to the client to do as they wish with them. It is not my call to destroy them as they are not my property. |
Iantech (16386) | ||
| 1282879 | 2012-06-19 23:38:00 | This is getting a bit like the TV programme Target. Tradesmen who are given the keys to the Target house to do repairs are caught on camera doing things that they aught not do. In truth most tradesmen are more interested in getting on with the job and are not interested in poking around your house. We all lock our doors and windows when we go out so that burglars do not find it easy to get inside. I always make sure that I will be home when a tradesman comes around. I am on hand to discuss any problems with the tradesman and I can keep an eye on things. I have at times sent my computer to a technician for him to repair. This is very similar to giving a tradesman your house key so that he can carry out the work while I am away. I think that we have to be able to trust the technician or tradesman. Password protecting your personal files makes sense to me. Likewise if a tradesman had the keys to my house and I had all my personal treasures in a room then I could lock that room. It is more practical for me to be in attendance while a tradesman is doing work on my house than it is for me to be in attendance while a computer technician is repairing my computer. |
Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1282880 | 2012-06-20 05:35:00 | Quite simple. Encrypt any files that you do not want to be made public. You can encrypt a folder at a time, only takes a few seconds. Make a backup to an external drive first. | mzee (3324) | ||
| 1282881 | 2012-06-20 21:12:00 | I ignore it all. If it was children, that would be a different matter. I also never bothered rummaging through drives, who has time, never mind who cares about other peoples boring stuff. Most of it is boring. There was the sheep photo though....I didn't investigate further..... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1282882 | 2012-06-21 00:22:00 | Quite simple. Encrypt any files that you do not want to be made public. You can encrypt a folder at a time, only takes a few seconds. Make a backup to an external drive first. that's a bit much to ask for non IT people. it's like saying when one travels or at home, to minimise thief to always put all valuables at the hotel's (home) safe or reception or bank safe and not wear fancy jewellery or clothing out. and to get a credit card with a small credit just case it got lost. and when you hire a trades person, to put it into a safe or put it in a bank's safe in case they go thru your stuff.... but then again .. a few may take an interest in simple portrait photographs or trawling thru your wardrobe like Target. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1282883 | 2012-06-21 01:03:00 | I agree with the encryption. I have entire drives encrypted just cause I can. |
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