FACT: I am an independent computer technician (glorified virus remover). I WILL look through your personal photos.
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Posted 8/25/2009 5:56 pm
I WILL search the entire drive for jpg files over 50k.
I WILL use an administrator account to access other users personal data.
I WILL investigate any folder with interesting images.
I WILL copy them to a thumb drive.
I WILL post good photos on 4chan.
I WILL use a Web Form password recovery tool to access your FaceBook, MySpace and other web pages.
Posted 8/25/2009 6:04 pm
We had a regular client who is a cop and we would regularly save hundreds of photos off his computer. Most were of himself barebacking hookers.
Posted 8/25/2009 6:13 pm
I had given away my daughter's computer to some people taht worked at my neighbor's store. But I forgot that I had a keylogger in there to monitor my daughter's chats and emails.
So I kept getting email reports of thei activities. It was funny as shit. The husband apparently loved the "Black on Blonde" pron sites and the wife was trying to hook up with some dude I'm guessing she met on Facebook.
Posted 8/25/2009 6:29 pm
I always take all the HDs out when giving it to shop (if a component failed for example and I want them to change it on warranty)
I once had a removable HD shared between a bunch of us to share office files. We were a start up and it was cheaper and easier than a server for getting started.
One guy uploaded some photos, and he must have copied any jpg on his computer as there were a whole bunch of what were obviously pics from porn sites sprinkled in with his own photos, as well as logos and the like from websites he'd visited, so he must have copied them out of Temp by accident.
Posted 8/25/2009 7:03 pm
I remember setting up a system for a (extremely paranoid) friend of mine - it had the entire disk except for the boot track encrypted so you had to type in a (long) passphrase every time you booted it.
It also had modifed HDD firmware that responded to the standard ATA or ATAPI "Identify unit" comment (0xEC/0xA1, IIRC) by returning reasonable looking data, but setting a flag that resulted in all subsequent reads returning all zeros - with the real identify command mapped to some other normally unused value. Making the system work was real fun, since _everthing_ that hit the drive from the BIOS upwards had to be patched to use the new value.
Once it was all patched, the drive firmware was further modified so that when the flag was set it also triggered the same processing that the SECURITY:ERASE_UNIT command carried out. I hope nobody ever tried to use it in some other machine, since it would have been extremely frustrating...
Posted 8/25/2009 8:01 pm
you tech lightweights suck. I boot machines up with linux on a usb drive and start undeleteing every image and text file on the HD to the usb stick.
Thats where you find the real surprises. pays off 99% of the time.
