Stolen sex pics are sport for computer repairers

**EJK** · 20th June 2012, 09:32

Originally Posted by Stuff.co.nz

Careful what you leave lying around when you send your computer off for repair.

There's a story doing the rounds at the moment about a Sydney computer repair shop which copied sexualy explicit photos off the computer of an Australian Olympian.

He'd handed the computer over for repairs and, while trawling the hard drive, the repairers found photos of the Olympian having sex with his wife and decided to leak them online.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/di...uter-repairers

Sounds like a dream job for SMOKEU.

**george formby** · 20th June 2012, 09:52

Originally Posted by EJK

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/di...uter-repairers

Sounds like a dream job for SMOKEU.

I see this all the time on usb sticks people bring into my shop. My mate who is a computer mechanic has dobbed in 3 suspected paedos & could probably blackmail half the towns population. A lot of computers he gets with virus problems come from cruising dodgy porn sites. Hilarious when it's the wife that brings them in. A lady came into the other shop awhile ago with her young son to get some documents printed, usb stick went into the computer, autorun..... lo & behold a video of her getting double teamed starts playing on the 40" monitor in full view of the shop with stereo sound.

Her reaction is one of the funniest things I have ever seen.

**iYRe** · 20th June 2012, 10:17

yeah.. its a nightmare... I've had to recover peoples hard drives.... "please please make sure you get all my pics and movies, I dont care about anything else".

Unfortunately I've not actually come across anyone I would want to watch/look at..

I had one young guy (about 17) come with his mom, "please replace the hard drive, but my son wants all his movies and pics, they're for a school project" (son is smirking in the background).
When he came to pick it up the next day - "please tell me you got all my movies?" Oh? I say, yes I got them.. "Cool, they're of the neighbour's wife - been seeing her a while now". His neighbours wife is 70, if she's a day.

ick. From that day forward I've purposefully avoided going anywhere near "my docs", and tend to throw their HDD into a caddy, and use cp-av * to get their stuff. Filenames are usually alot less bile producing.

**SMOKEU** · 20th June 2012, 10:29

Originally Posted by EJK

Sounds like a dream job for SMOKEU.

Fucking oath it is! Sign me up!

I have no sympathy for people who are dumb enough to hand their sensitive data over to a complete stranger. FFS, remove the storage drives before sending the computer over, or DBAN the drives, or encrypt the sensitive data.

**Gremlin** · 20th June 2012, 10:34

*shrug*... I just repair the computers as required, or transfer all the data as required. I imagine it's because we're primarily business focussed and don't have walk-in customers off the street, but I've seen a few porn collections etc.

I do dig through the drive if it's larger than a typical install, to find out where the space is going and what's being stored, so I know what's going on. Depends on the problem. Malware caught early enough can be a <30 min fix as there is a few usual things it's up to.

**SMOKEU** · 20th June 2012, 10:56

Originally Posted by Gremlin

Malware caught early enough can be a <30 min fix as there is a few usual things it's up to.

Format boot drive. Install Linux. Problem solved.

**ducatilover** · 20th June 2012, 10:57

I better learn how to fix computers

**george formby** · 20th June 2012, 11:21

Originally Posted by iYRe

Unfortunately I've not actually come across anyone I would want to watch/look at..

Yup, it's the real deal, hairy bush swamp monsters getting the most imaginative action. The mind boggles.

**SMOKEU** · 20th June 2012, 11:27

Originally Posted by george formby

Yup, it's the real deal, hairy bush swamp monsters getting the most imaginative action. The mind boggles.

Seen any strange fetishes on customers HDDs?

**george formby** · 20th June 2012, 11:29

Originally Posted by SMOKEU

Seen any strange fetishes on customers HDDs?

I know a lady that the SPCA would take a stern interest in.

**ducatilover** · 20th June 2012, 11:33

Originally Posted by george formby

I know a lady that the SPCA would take a stern interest in.

Does she like lethal injections and uniforms?

**george formby** · 20th June 2012, 11:50

Originally Posted by ducatilover

Does she like lethal injections and uniforms?

All I know is, she has an unusual way of feeding her Golden Retriever.

**sil3nt** · 20th June 2012, 11:56

Photo developers get to see some interesting things too. Couldn't image taking so dirty photos then handing them to someone to look at and develop.

**george formby** · 20th June 2012, 12:21

Originally Posted by sil3nt

Photo developers get to see some interesting things too. Couldn't image taking so dirty photos then handing them to someone to look at and develop.

People are strange. My G/F had a little side line selling, er, adult novelties. A guy phoned up asking how big a penis pump was, he was told big enough. Still not convinced a foot long drain pipe would be adequate he e-mailed her a photo of his John Thomas. He bought it in the end so I guess it was worth the horror.

**HenryDorsetCase** · 20th June 2012, 12:29

Originally Posted by george formby

People are strange. My G/F had a little side line selling, er, adult novelties. A guy phoned up asking how big a penis pump was, he was told big enough. Still not convinced a foot long drain pipe would be adequate he e-mailed her a photo of his John Thomas. He bought it in the end so I guess it was worth the horror.

and they told me AUSTIN POWERS was a comedy, not a documentary