My nudes are about to be compromised.

[Muscadine_Eyes]

Here's how you handle it to make it totally plausible:

If you really want to keep the nudes, transfer them to another media like a cd or flash drive. Then DELETE!!!

Tell Dad you've heard all these horror stories about identity theft, and since you have all that on your hard drive, you want it completely replaced. Also, a geek friend told you that when a computer is bought from the store, it has a ton of extra stuff from the factory you never use, so this time you want only the stuff you actually use. Your friend said not having all that crap on there will make it work better and make you less vulnerable to adware and junk. Have the unit sent for repair without the hard drive and tell the tech the basics you want.

No AOL, it's a virus.

Thanks for the alibi.

 

[IWonderWhy]

Just copy and paste them to a USB Thumbdrive, you can pick one up with lots of storage space fairly reasonable, then just delete all the ones on your laptop. When you get your computer back just copy and paste them from the thumbdrive back to your computer

 

[lovecraft68]

Get yourself a gmail account and store your 'personal' photos on google drive

Nothing is safe on google.

They have some very very fine print hiding in their terms of service that technically can give them ownership of any intellectual property you share or put through it.

 

[LWulf]

The problem is that when you "delete" something, it isn't really/truly deleted. First, most people forget to empty their "recycle bin." Also, and this is the part that is truly annoying, since most people are "stupid" or that's what most programmers think, they create visible and invisible files to hold deleted material. The visible is the "recycle bin" that everyone is aware of. What they don't tell everyone is that what you delete is still on your computer in one of those invisible files, because "stupid" people mistakenly erase things then go to IT people begging them to "find it somehow."

There are a few true file eraser programs out there, but they no longer are free. One came with Spybot - Search and Destroy, but legal issues prompted that software manufacturer to remove the file shredder.
Even a shredded file is repairable, it just depends how thoroughly it is shredded.
**spybot is also no longer compatible with the current version of Windows

If you are that worried about any personal data being found, I suggest buying one at the local computer store.

Sadly, ever since people first took film to photomats for developing, people have been worried about personal pictures being viewed inappropriately. While companies can ensure their motives are pure, people with human faults work at those companies and will hoard whatever they can get their sticky fingers on. Sometimes for personal pleasure, other times to sell information for profit.

 

[u22u2]

brother

Okay. Thank you both for your advice. I will have to keep my father from giving it to anyone, even if it means hanging onto it broken for all eternity. My brother could fix it and I could sit by and watch him do it. (He isn't the nosey type.)

Let you brother do it. He'll enjoy the pics LOL or ... you could send them all to me and I will not look either. promise

 

[Cumference]

How did it end?
Did you get hold of your pictures? Shred the HDD? Or are the nerds at the computershop giving you the look?

 

[Bramblethorn]

The problem is that when you "delete" something, it isn't really/truly deleted. First, most people forget to empty their "recycle bin." Also, and this is the part that is truly annoying, since most people are "stupid" or that's what most programmers think, they create visible and invisible files to hold deleted material. The visible is the "recycle bin" that everyone is aware of. What they don't tell everyone is that what you delete is still on your computer in one of those invisible files, because "stupid" people mistakenly erase things then go to IT people begging them to "find it somehow."

There are a few true file eraser programs out there, but they no longer are free. One came with Spybot - Search and Destroy, but legal issues prompted that software manufacturer to remove the file shredder.

Depends on your computer. Recent Macs come with DoD-spec secure delete functionality as standard, but for large files it's SLOW. To protect against casual recovery attempts you need to overwrite every byte of the file with zeroes, which takes time. To protect against somebody with serious forensic tools you have to do that many times. On the more paranoid settings that can take days.

 

[LWulf]

Depends on your computer. Recent Macs come with DoD-spec secure delete functionality as standard, but for large files it's SLOW. To protect against casual recovery attempts you need to overwrite every byte of the file with zeroes, which takes time. To protect against somebody with serious forensic tools you have to do that many times. On the more paranoid settings that can take days.

The only things I know about Macs is that they are Big, sometimes comes with Cheese, and they cost twice as much as a PC.

The cost issue is primary though, especially with the advent of helium depletion in a couple of years.

Thoughts on the manufacturing of silicon chips with the only viable alternative which will substantially increase costs of both Macs and PCs?

 

[Bramblethorn]

The only things I know about Macs is that they are Big, sometimes comes with Cheese, and they cost twice as much as a PC.

The cost issue is primary though, especially with the advent of helium depletion in a couple of years.

Thoughts on the manufacturing of silicon chips with the only viable alternative which will substantially increase costs of both Macs and PCs?

I'm not a Mac/PC zealot. I use a PC at my primary job, MacBook at home, and Android phone, and they all have their points, so if people are happy with what they're using, more power to 'em. (And frankly, even if you ARE wedded to one of those platforms, you should be grateful to the competition; my Droid would undoubtedly be more expensive and less powerful if they weren't competing with Apple, and vice versa.)

Most of the price diff between Mac and PC comes down to what you get in the box. You can buy a basic PC for much cheaper than the cheapest Mac, but it won't have the same bells and whistles - like, say, secure delete and full-disk encryption options, as well as a heap of other stuff that you will need to obtain separately for a PC. By the time you've upgraded to Mac-equivalent features you'll be paying a very similar price.

If you like to customise and have the time and know-how, PC probably offers better flexibility. Me, I spend a lot of my working day wrestling computers, I don't want to come home and do more of the same on my own time.

(And my partner, who has a long background in IT support, spends MUCH more time wrestling with her PC laptop than Ido with mine.)

 

[LWulf]

...Most of the price diff between Mac and PC comes down to what you get in the box. You can buy a basic PC for much cheaper than the cheapest Mac, but it won't have the same bells and whistles - like, say, secure delete and full-disk encryption options, as well as a heap of other stuff that you will need to obtain separately for a PC. By the time you've upgraded to Mac-equivalent features you'll be paying a very similar price.

If you like to customize and have the time and know-how, PC probably offers better flexibility. Me, I spend a lot of my working day wrestling computers, I don't want to come home and do more of the same on my own time.
...

Hmm. So you focus on the brunt of the jokes (Big Mac, Mac & Cheese) and ignore the more weighty subject. Why does it seem so many people are trying to ignore that situation?
I suppose I should stop trying to do what literoticans do and stop trying to hijack the thread and make my own. Maybe then someone will look it in the face...

 

[Bramblethorn]

The only things I know about Macs is that they are Big, sometimes comes with Cheese, and they cost twice as much as a PC.

The cost issue is primary though...

...Most of the price diff between Mac and PC comes down to what you get in the box... By the time you've upgraded to Mac-equivalent features you'll be paying a very similar price.

Hmm. So you focus on the brunt of the jokes (Big Mac, Mac & Cheese) and ignore the more weighty subject.

Dude, you're the one who just said "the cost issue is primary" and now you're complaining because I talked about costs?

 

[LWulf]

Dude, you're the one who just said "the cost issue is primary" and now you're complaining because I talked about costs?

Okay, so you have a limited scope that stops after 5 words? Because the REST of that sentence read "especially with the advent of helium depletion in a couple of years."

...and finished with:

Thoughts on the manufacturing of silicon chips with the only viable alternative which will substantially increase costs of both Macs and PCs?"

****​

Now, maybe you aren't aware that helium is used in the manufacturing of silicon chips, during the die sublimation process which makes the microscopic transistors on the processor die.

Since helium is anticipated to become depleted by around 2016, the only alternative to manufacturing silicons chips is to use nitrogen (freon might be another source but that likewise causes damage), which besides causing liquid damage from condensation which is why it wasn't used previously, but also because it is a much higher cost material to use. Which, would transfer to the consumers of ALL computers; MAC or PC.

Now, I put to you again, thoughts on the COST increase of PCs and Macs with the advent of helium depletion?

Edit:
Heck, everything that uses computer chips is going to get a jolt of increased cost... TV's, cars, cameras, planes (thus flights), radar, PDAs, cell phones, blah blah blah
However, to sort of keep it on the OP's topic, and because your job seems to be centered around computers, I focused on computers alone because it would seem to be something of significant importance to one such as you.

 

[Miles Long]

Are the nudes still compromised? I repeat: are the nudes still compromised?

 

[Cumference]

Are the nudes still compromised? I repeat: are the nudes still compromised?

Muscadine has not been logged in for several weeks.
(According to the profile)
She is probably being blackmailed by the nerds or has been sent to a remote monastery for moral resurrection.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Okay, so you have a limited scope that stops after 5 words? Because the REST of that sentence read "especially with the advent of helium depletion in a couple of years."

Actually, I only quoted part of your post. Quoting at a bit more length:

"and they cost twice as much as a PC. The cost issue is primary though"

If that seems like "five words" to you, I'm not surprised you think Macs are twice as expensive as PCs.

I commented on the cost comparison because you indicated it as being of primary importance, it's something I know something about, it's the most relevant to the original topic of discussion, and because I try to correct the record when people post stuff that's clearly wrong.

I didn't comment on helium depletion because it's not something I know much about, and I wasn't in a position to do fact-checking.



...and finished with:

Thoughts on the manufacturing of silicon chips with the only viable alternative which will substantially increase costs of both Macs and PCs?"

****​

Now, maybe you aren't aware that helium is used in the manufacturing of silicon chips, during the die sublimation process which makes the microscopic transistors on the processor die.

Since helium is anticipated to become depleted by around 2016, the only alternative to manufacturing silicons chips is to use nitrogen (freon might be another source but that likewise causes damage), which besides causing liquid damage from condensation which is why it wasn't used previously, but also because it is a much higher cost material to use. Which, would transfer to the consumers of ALL computers; MAC or PC.

Now, I put to you again, thoughts on the COST increase of PCs and Macs with the advent of helium depletion?

Edit:
Heck, everything that uses computer chips is going to get a jolt of increased cost... TV's, cars, cameras, planes (thus flights), radar, PDAs, cell phones, blah blah blah
However, to sort of keep it on the OP's topic, and because your job seems to be centered around computers, I focused on computers alone because it would seem to be something of significant importance to one such as you.[/QUOTE]

 

[LWulf]

I'm sorry that I misinterpreted what you first wrote. I have no opinion on the subject you seem to really be talking about, so I fixated on what was available that I could.

That's okay, I quite understand. My apologies for thinking you knew more about, what I perceive to be, more weighty matters in the world.

Peace.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Oops, I was editing on a phone and it looks like I still had a large chunk of quoted text hiding at the bottom of the window. I would go back and edit it out, but since Lwulf is being childish enough to falsify quotes I'll have to leave that post un-edited.

For the record, I make no apology at all for politely correcting somebody who responded to a request for advice on privacy protection by posting misinformation about what options are available. Nor do I apologise for passing on their attempt to draw the discussion off on an irrelevant tangent instead of just accepting the correction.

 

[LWulf]

Oops, I was editing on a phone and it looks like I still had a large chunk of quoted text hiding at the bottom of the window. I would go back and edit it out,

You have had three chances now to respond to my tangential topic (and still have yet to) and it took you a full day to realize you made a mistake when posting your last comment.

but since Lwulf is being childish enough to falsify quotes

My apologies. See? I am not too proud to admit a mistake... apparently unlike you. Then again, I wasn't the first one to misquote someone, was I?

You took the first five words out of one sentence to misquote me once, then when I stung your pride by stating you ignored my true tangential topic, to refute your error you did a lame attempt to misquote me, by taking the last couple words from one sentence (which had NOTHING to do with the following sentence), ignored a period which is indicative of a end of one statement in the english speaking world, ignored a skipped line, which generally indicates a change of thought or direction, then ignored the rest of the sentence after the first five words from the following sentence which you DID focus on. All to validate your error, which you are still too proud to admit.

Have you ever heard that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones?

I'll have to leave that post un-edited.

"HAVE to leave it"? I wasn't aware I had SO much power over you!

For the record, I make no apology at all for politely correcting somebody...

For the record, did you see me contest your "correction"? So what is up with the "for the record"?

BTW, you didn't "correct" me, you gave a broader explanation of my qualified one. I gave a response to the OP based on the lion's share of the market which uses PCs, since the OP didn't specify they were using a Mac or PC laptop.

For the record, in 2009 Apple quoted a figure of 75 million Mac users in the world. The unofficial estimate is that over 350 million people all over the world use computers.
Let's see, 350 million minus 75 million = (an estimated) 275 million people using PC's.

That means ~21% use Mac's over ~78% using PC's. I think that entitles my being subjectively narrow minded in qualifying my response to the OP.
However, YOU qualified your answer too by not including linux OS's and their method for file removal, didn't you?

Nice to see I'm not the only subjectively narrow minded person around here, but you didn't see me rubbing your nose in it for giving that "misinformation" now did you?

...Nor do I apologise for passing on their attempt to draw the discussion off on an irrelevant tangent instead of just accepting the correction.

Okay, hold on there, you "passed at (my) attempt" to draw off the discussion on the increased cost of ALL computers worldwide with the advent of the depletion of helium, yet you jumped feet first in lecturing me on a irrelevant tangent of how the Mac is equally priced to the PC, all things being equal, which, BTW, please point out where I or the OP asked for that information?

However, at the beginning of your most recent response, you implied that you had a response to my intended topic in your previous response and "oops!" (it got left off).

At least have the decency to lie better, you insult my intelligence.

As for the "accepting the correction", I wasn't aware that I needed to concede to your, apparently much needed, affirmation that you are correct.

However let me now apologize and officially accept your qualifying my qualified response to the OP. I also apologize for reiterating your previous comment to make you come across humble and literate (cognizant of what I was saying instead of jumping on your own tangent). I also apologize for, having heard your qualifying my comment to the OP, thought you might know more about a subject that has me anxious over the outcome of all computers and machines that use silicon chips.

Apparently I am the only one however, in this two sided discussion, who is willing to believe the other person has intelligence. However, the more you respond, the less I am willing to believe that.

 

[NightL]

So where are the nudes? I came to see the nudes...

 

[Bramblethorn]

You have had three chances now to respond to my tangential topic (and still have yet to)

And am not likely to any time soon. I can't tell you how much it pains me to pass up this opportunity, but there it is.

My apologies. See? I am not too proud to admit a mistake...

When you go fabricate a sentence and put it in somebody else's mouth, that's not actually a "mistake". It's not something that happens by accident, it's a deliberate lie.

apparently unlike you.

Readers only have to look upthread to see that you're lying again.

Then again, I wasn't the first one to misquote someone, was I?

Actually, yeah, you were. I didn't quote the whole of your post; I quoted one specific assertion that you made, and I represented that accurately. That's not a "misquote", even if I left out the tangent that you wanted people to talk about.

then when I stung your pride by stating you ignored my true tangential topic,

If you think that "you ran away from a discussion of helium depletion!" is something that would hurt my pride, you are seriously confused.

to refute your error you did a lame attempt to misquote me, by taking the last couple words from one sentence (which had NOTHING to do with the following sentence),

Sorry, are you seriously saying that the "they cost twice as much as a PC" bit had nothing at all to do with the sentence immediately following that begins with "the cost issue is primary"?

...yeah, nah.

Since it's late here and I have a plane to catch tomorrow, I'm going to skip the rest of your ramblings and go snuggle with my partner. Feel free to assume that you have won a crushing rhetorical victory

 

[NightL]

Still no nudes? Where are the nudes?

or am I just saying "Is the first person to just walk away actually the winner?"

 

[Miles Long]

Still no nudes? Where are the nudes?

or am I just saying "Is the first person to just walk away actually the winner?"

I thought we were about to see some compromising nudes. The internet let us down again!

 

[Cumference]

I thought we were about to see some compromising nudes. The internet let us down again!

They were scared away by the sound of fighting technosexuals!

 

[Emerson40]

The desire of other's to see promised nudes is being compromised.

I think someone mentioned there'd be helium balloons too!

Nudes and balloons! Woot, WOOT!

Best not be compromised again.

 

[Cumference]

We did not even get to see a nude balloon!