How do you hide your porn if you need to take your laptop in for...

[crew32]

repairs?:thinking::worried:

 

[michel21]

I don't have porn in my laptop as I use it also to work. Also you have to consider the possibility of loss (steal etc).

Anyway, I use BestCrypt to create encrypted virtual drives. All my secret stuff goes there, not only porn. Use different drives, of course (I have created 3).

Have to worry about browsing footsteps too, I use Firefox, all the datas cleaned after browser is close, and then I use CCleaner to cleaning up the rest of them. Of course it does not mean my activities are untrackble, just a little more difficult. I should wipe the free space from time to time to improve privacy, but I don't care that much. I don't do any illegal activity anyway.

The best advice I can give you is that: use a data encryption software, like BestCrypt (and wear sunscreen! :thumbs up: )

 

[lhardwick69]

external hard drives are best put all porn on one unhook it put it away and dont forget to delete history or it be kind of pointless hiding the gay porn if they can go where you go while fixing your laptop

 

[brmstn69]

If I can't fix it myself, I buy a new PC. Never have I taken one in to be repaired. And no, I'm not a computer geek that can fix anything, nor am I wealthy enough to buy new computers all the time. I'm just cautious.

But, if I were to take it in for repairs, WTF? I don't give a shit what they think of me or the contents of my hard drive. Who knows, that little cutie in the geek squad just might add his phone number to my receipt...

 

[josh_the_hot_boy]

I've never had to take my computer in. Nor would I.

 

[Voyager]

But, if I were to take it in for repairs, WTF? I don't give a shit what they think of me or the contents of my hard drive.

I have to agree with brmstn69!

Last year, my computer had a problem and could not even boot up (just the blue screen of death)

I have 2 external hard drives where I store most stuff, but had a ton of things that had not been transferred. I fretted over it at first but needed the computer so I brought it someplace locally and it was fixed.

While I was concerned about what I had and the history of my web activities, I also know that those who do this kind of repair have seen it all and I am sure it is meaningless to them (I hope)!

I am guessing that most of the computers that they repair have some porn stored someplace.

It may be that the repair took 2 weeks because the technician was enjoying some of the great vids I had in my unwatched folder :rofl::rofl:

 

[josh_the_hot_boy]

I once heard a story about this I guess simi famous guy who took his computer in to get it fixed. The only problem was he for got to remove his child pornography from the desktop. I hope he likes Iron bars and sharing a shit hole with another guy.

 

[Sinnerr]

Try to find some gayfriendly computer service. I know one in Prague. They are located in Vinohrady district inside greatest gay cruising area in Czech Republic and probably in former eastern block too. I Guess They have many gay customers from whole country Who take theirs broken comps to service when They go to have fun to Prague Friday evening.

 

[ERICOOL85]

i repair it myself, and i dont lend it to anyone

 

[yoyo888]

It is VERY true. Us computer repair people do snoop around to see what naughty pics or movies are on the hard disk.

Once I was fixing someone's, and they deleted all their own personal naughty pics before handing the PC over to me. They forgot to delete the recycle bin, so of course I had a look.

OMG!, lets just say when I gave the PC back to them fixed, I could not really look at her without sniggering, the pics were of them playing with a massive pink dildo. The other embarrassing part of it was that her Mum worked at my place work when I was there. There were also pics of her hubbie naked on the bed, and no it was not a very pretty sight!

So yes if you do take your PC or laptop into a shop or a mate to have a look, they will see what naughty stuff is on the hard disk behind their backs.

So YES very good idea. Find a gay friendly place to fix your kit. Maybe that is what I should have advertised my self when I was doing that

 

[garth33]

we've had several cases of people taking their PC's in to be cleaned only to have these local yaboo's steal personal info (HELLO - how many of us do our taxes online now?) and MUCH MORE ID-theft material that's much more lucrative. Sure they might snigger over porn but if your computer crashes...MAKE SURE YOU CAN TRUST WHO WILL TRANSFER THE DATA becuase most of these douchebags are internet losers/thieves!

peace,
g

 

[gb2000ie]

Forget about porn, there are much more sensitive things on most of our computers - passwords, financial data, Social Security numbers, our addressbooks, enough for anyone to steal our identity, and perhaps our money!

The only solution is to use full disk encryption, and to back up regularly. If you hit a serious problem that you cannot fix, format the drive, send the machine in to be fixed, and then restore from your backup when you get it back. If the drive is encryprted and the machine too dead to even format the disk, don't give the repair people the password, and tell them for format the drive when they get the machine booting again if they need to.

At the VERY least you should keep your home folder encrypted, using FileVault on Mac, BitLocker on Windows, or an encrypted file system on /home on Linux. You should have a clean admin account on your machine that you never do anything with, and you only give the password for THAT account to the repair people. If you have all your home dirs encrypted, then all your personal data should be safe.

Another approach is to use external encrypted disks for all your data, that way, the really sensitive stuff is not on the machine. If you do this, be sure to use the portable version of FireFox and have it save your bookmarks, passwords, etc on the external disk.

B.

 

[topdog]

Lots of good advice here. Mine is similar:

• I use LastPass for passwords, credit cards, bank info, and any other sensitive info and I set my browsers to not save any information.
• I use TrueCrypt to encrypt personal directories.
• Every night my laptop backs up to my server (using Acronis) and then runs system cleaner utility to scrub any history or temporary files.
• All my work files are in synchronized directories that copy everything to a cloud service and then sync to all my computers/ tablet / phones, (using Sugar Sync). That way I can work anywhere and everything is always current. DropBox and Microsoft Skydrive also work well. Just encrypt any directories that you don't want to be readable before you have them sync.
• If I need to, at any time I can wipe a laptop clean and install ubuntu linix over it if I have to loan it out or take it for repairs. There is always an image back up on my server so I can bring it back to exactly the same state the computer was in the day before.

 

[Remote]

- TopDog has given you GREAT advice (it would be the advice that I would personally follow). It might also be helpful to call somebody like Geek Squad so you can be "there" as the repair takes place (just a thought).