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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PronA few stories spring to mind (one featuring me).
First, one day, I was bored at work, and viewing porn (as you do). I had got up from my PC to talk to one of the other Techs about something, and a lecturer walked in. He needed to look something up quickly, so I let him use my PC. He typed "http://www" into IE, and Autocomplete helpfully bought up a fairly complete list of all the Pron site's I had visited.
Second, one of my friends was viewing a link she had recieved in an email. It was fairly pornographic. Her Boss (who is anti-porn) walked in, so she tried to close the window. She clicked "Maximise" instead.
Finally, one night I was working late, and one of our security guards had found a way to view porn on the computer in reception. Now, that computer has been configured specifically to view the library's website (so students can seatch for books and stuff), but he had managed to persuade it to view a porn site. The thing is, the system was specifically set up to view the library website, so anything that had nothing to do with that was disabled (menus, Explorer, the Address bar etc). I got a call to say he was having a little trouble with the PC.
I went downstairs, had a look, and found 163 pop ups on screen. All advertising porn. I just told him to click on each one, then press "CTRL" + "F4".
(, Fri 10 Feb 2006, 12:44, Reply)
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