So what have you found while fixing peoples computers?

Bigstan said:
It's not necessary to harm anyone to be doing wrong.
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Yes it is, that is the essence of wrong doing.

and stealing a car is quite a bit different than looking at images or videos. Its not human nature to just steal a car, curiosity and sex however are human nature.

If i were to say to you "Dont look in the secret box" then leave you alone with it you would want to look. If not then you my friend have surpassed humanity and should procreate as much as possible. (Please leave us videos of said procreation)
 
It's amazing what people leave on their work laptops and mobiles when they leave the company. Personal details, very personal photographs :eek: It's just silly, surely you'd remove rood pics of yourself before you handed it back to the IT department, but NO!!?
 
Bigstan said:
As above, watching videos doesn't find malware, running a scan does and doesn't require you to open the files.
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no but looking through to see if they have some dodgy installer there, or if in their book marks/history there's a site which will immediately re download the mal ware one they get their pc home, and so they should be warned or their just going to come back and start yelling about how you didn't fix their pc etc.
 
I hide mine from my partner by using cleverly named passworded .rar files :)

As for whether its bad that your HDD gets rifled through at small pc shops, its something to be expected and if I worked there I'd probably do the same - and thats probably why I dont work there! Its all a bit of fun at the end of the day :)
 
M right to privacy outweighs some nosey "techs" nonexistent "right" to go roaming through my personal files be they porn or my business documents.

I am with BigStan 100% on this one.

If you have been tipped off and have the legal right to be looking for any files needed to help file a case then so be it otherwise STFU and keep your nose out of my business.

No porn (I stream it from ....tube) on my computer but plenty of important documents that I don't want anybody looking at.
 
Biohazard said:
Face it man your in the wrong any any further arguing with Stan will only make you look even further in the wrong... when in that hole stop digging.
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Im not in a hole. You have differing views on wether you would have looked at a folder on a pc you were investigating. I looked, you wouldnt. End of story... ranting on about it being illegal like stan has done is just silly. It wasnt illegal, immoral maybe but certainly not illegal. At the time the DPA didnt even exist in its current form. The legal disclaimer we had at the time covered it , they signed away any right to keeping the data private when they handed it over and signed. This disclaimer was made by a firm of solicitors so sorry but ill go with their viewpoint on what was legal or not at the time rather than stans opinion on a forum 8 years later!

Not that i care that one ot two people on the forum think im "immoral" anyway. The way you are going on and on about it just proves how anal some of you are.
 
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AtreuS said:
Im not in a hole. You have differing views on wether you would have looked at a folder on a pc you were investigating. I looked, you wouldnt. End of story... ranting on about it being illegal like stan has done is just silly. It wasnt illegal, immoral maybe but certainly not illegal. At the time the DPA didnt even exist in its current form. The legal disclaimer we had at the time covered it anyway, they signed away any right to keeping the data private when they handed it over and signed.

Not that i care that group of do-gooders think im "immoral" anyway. The way you are going on and on about it just proves how anal some of you are.
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What a thoroughly unpleasant chap.
 
fixing mates sisters pc, she brought it round to ours and left. first thing any good tech should do is a jpeg search. i found a pic of her topless eating an ice cream.



I FORGOT TO KEEP A COPY OF THE PIC ARRGHHH
 
AtreuS said:
Im not in a hole. You have differing views on wether you would have looked at a folder on a pc you were investigating. I looked, you wouldnt. End of story... ranting on about it being illegal like stan has done is just silly. It wasnt illegal, immoral maybe but certainly not illegal. At the time the DPA didnt even exist in its current form. The legal disclaimer we had at the time covered it , they signed away any right to keeping the data private when they handed it over and signed. This disclaimer was made by a firm of solicitors so sorry but ill go with their viewpoint on what was legal or not at the time rather than stans opinion on a forum 8 years later!

Not that i care that one ot two people on the forum think im "immoral" anyway. The way you are going on and on about it just proves how anal some of you are.
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Going on and on?

Chap thats the first time I posted in this thread. You prove how anal I am then.

Tool. :)
 
AtreuS said:
*yawn*

Aww someone doesnt agree with your viewpoint on a moral issue so now you have to start making personal attacks. How nice of you.
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you can't say that now how you were earlier you certainly were making it personal earlier so you can't not expect the same in return.
 
i love how no timeline is given but Atreus is so confident of the DPA not being around at the time and that the solicitor covered it.

Also how the girls in question had web cams but it predated the DPA act 1998 and that also he was looking for spyware, I've been using PCs for a good 13 years now and spyware and malware certainly weren't around before 1998. Basically straight the story sounds proper made up to me
 
mattpj said:
i love how no timeline is given but Atreus is so confident of the DPA not being around at the time and that the solicitor covered it.

Also how the girls in question had web cams but it predated the DPA act 1998 and that also he was looking for spyware, I've been using PCs for a good 13 years now and spyware and malware certainly weren't around before 1998. Basically straight the story sounds proper made up to me
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mattpj said:
i love how no timeline is given but Atreus is so confident of the DPA not being around at the time and that the solicitor covered it.

Also how the girls in question had web cams but it predated the DPA act 1998 and that also he was looking for spyware, I've been using PCs for a good 13 years now and spyware and malware certainly weren't around before 1998. Basically straight the story sounds proper made up to me
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Oh dont be so silly. The pc had spyware on it and virus's as discovered by norton scanner at the time. And i didnt say the DPA didnt exist i said it didnt exist in its CURRENT form, so whats illegal now might not have been back then. This was about 7 or 8 years ago and the girls were uni students and got upto god knows what on the net. Just because you dont agree with me doesnt mean i made anything up, why would i even bother to make something up thats so mild?

I think some of you really need to take a step back and see just how pointless it is to argue about this. Ive already admitted that yes i was immoral in looking, big deal im immoral. So what?

Some of you are trying to make such a big deal out of it and make out im some kind of master criminal and compulsive lier? i mean why? :o

Next time i tell a story ill make sure to give dates/times and get references from all involved so that the ocuk brigade can pour over every detail and verify it. :p

Edit: ive just checked by cv and it would probably have been in the year 2000 or 2001 when it happened. I moved jobs a fair bit at the time between 2 or 3 places so forgive me not having an exact memory on it.
 
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To be fair to AtreuS, while as I said above I don't make a habit of snooping around hard drives for the sake of it (which I don't think AtreuS said he does either).... If two incredibly hot girls brought me a PC, and had that on the DESKTOP, with a folder called Sexy Stuff or whatever, I'm pretty sure I'd copy their home movie to my USB stick too :D Purely for backup purposes, obviously :p

What I WOULDN'T have accepted was the staff's behaviour. I'd have slapped them down like bitches for that - word of mouth to small business is everything. Having two customers tell half your town that you trawled their drive then followed them out of the shop wearing "I love lesbians" t-shirts wouldn't be the best advert imho. Having a "private party" with yourself over their home movie is one thing, embarrassing them publicly under the name of your business is another.

Whatever.
 
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