My computer gave away my secretsA good friend recently found out his girlfriend was pregnant when google autocomplete came up with 'symptoms of pregnancy'...
Has your googling been your undoing? Has someone found your gay porn stash? Have you had a Gary Glitter moment in PC World? Tell us how your computer has ratted on you.
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chthonic, Fri 10 Feb 2006, 10:58)
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Nothing to add again - bugger......though understandable in this case seeing as I make a point of turning autocomplete off on any PC that I use, and my home system is set to blitz my caches and histories in the wee hours of every morning using the gift of decent cachecleaner software.*
This is due more to general conspiracy-theorist paranoia than the desire to conceal dodgy surfage from friends and loved ones, but there you go. Looking at some folks' posts though, maybe my policies where this kind of thing is concerned would be a good move for some of you ;)
* Word of advice folks - if you want to keep your surfing/viewing habits a secret for any reason, invest in some decent cachecleaner tools at least - Microsoft's own stuff in IE settings is utter wank except for freeing up disk space - any self-respecting geek (me, for example) would be able to dig up your dirty secrets inside of half-an-hour, even if you had emptied moments before my arrival. Oh, and on surfing pr0n and other dodgy content at work - if you do it, you're an idiot - there's no grey area here - you're an idiot and you deserve to be fired just for being an idiot, the only exception being if your work is relevant in some way to the pr0n industry. I know this because I monitor the web server logs for my company and know how easy it is to catch you out with those alone. There was one girl once who had a thing for horses...
(, Mon 13 Feb 2006, 13:46, Reply)
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