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Originally posted by juzchilln
For those of you who are honest, you will admit that at one time or another you have browsed the net for adult material. It doesn't matter if you condone or agree with this practice, the point I have still remains.
Every once in a while, on a seemingly trusted porn site, you might have come across a video containing a young woman in a sex act. You click it, however there is no age verification legal notices or any particular trusted site source watermarked on the video. You soon realize that the girl in the video may or may not be 18 years old. So you click out of the video.
Most men and women fail to realize that those videos often remain in your Temp files. In other words you still retain ownership of that material.
Now, there are 10's of millions of people in ,United States alone, who could possibly have child porn video stored in their computer's Temp files. We're talking millions of illegal videos here.
The conspiracy I have thought of is this. If Law enforcement and DHS were to tag and track those transfers, then they could potentially have legal charges against most of it's citizens. Something they could keep on file should the time come when you start to misbehave.
This is a scary reality which could very well be happening. I can't help but recall the increasing number of high profile people torn down with charges of illegal child porn.
Any thoughts? And BTW, I'd don't really care if you like porn or not so this thread isn't about your views on internet porn. I'm just bringing up a concern so take it easy!!
[edit on 11-9-2009 by juzchilln]
Originally posted by v3_exceed
Your best bet to protect your old drive when you are done with it, is to take a drill and perforate the drive platter. If the material is not there, there is no drive recovery. There are other ways to protect your self, but the very best way is to become educated. A few simple steps will help protect you. Always use a hardware based firewall/router, keep anti virus up to date, and be aware of what windows update is actually updating. Norton isn't the only company to be caught with their hand in the cookie jar..*cough.Apple..*cough..
Originally posted by mblahnikluver
When I saw the title I thought, damn Im going to jail well this is interesting. I have always been told that you cant really erase anything off your computer, someone will always be able to retrieve it. I know many watch porn but if you didnt know they were underage why should you be in jail? If there is no disclaimer then should you be jailed for not knowing? no! Shouldnt they worry about who filmed it and made it?! Anyways.....there goes more privacy.
Originally posted by -NewSense-
My sentiments exactly. How are we to be jailed but not the creators of the website? Don't websites go through atleast 1 screening process? How is it they are allowed to upload and share this with the masses but we're the ones that get in trouble for it? I'm not sure their case would hold up in court. Unless of course it was obvious the person was underage, there's no excuse for that.
Originally posted by -NewSense-
Originally posted by mblahnikluver
When I saw the title I thought, damn Im going to jail well this is interesting. I have always been told that you cant really erase anything off your computer, someone will always be able to retrieve it. I know many watch porn but if you didnt know they were underage why should you be in jail? If there is no disclaimer then should you be jailed for not knowing? no! Shouldnt they worry about who filmed it and made it?! Anyways.....there goes more privacy.
My sentiments exactly. How are we to be jailed but not the creators of the website? Don't websites go through atleast 1 screening process? How is it they are allowed to upload and share this with the masses but we're the ones that get in trouble for it? I'm not sure their case would hold up in court. Unless of course it was obvious the person was underage, there's no excuse for that.
Originally posted by El Davicho
All this is very insightful, thanks for your expert input. What does Apple have that can compromise your PC? Whenever I do a reformat, it seems like problems start when my wife reinstalls i-Tunes. I always make sure to switch off any auto updates, and I get rid of that Bonjour service.
Anything else i-tunes/Quicktime installs that I should take care of?
Originally posted by v3_exceed
Originally posted by El Davicho
All this is very insightful, thanks for your expert input. What does Apple have that can compromise your PC? Whenever I do a reformat, it seems like problems start when my wife reinstalls i-Tunes. I always make sure to switch off any auto updates, and I get rid of that Bonjour service.
Anything else i-tunes/Quicktime installs that I should take care of?
Apple was found to be installing a "root kit" onto pc's in a stealth manner. A root kit is a resource that allows an outside person to have "root" or system access to someones computer without their knowledge or consent. These kinds of resources have their own security levels and protections, but aren't very secure. This part was supposed to be removed fro the software, but was it? Or was it just better hidden? Another good reason to run a program that shows you what connections your system is listening for. Visiting Iana.org will show you port assignments for application. (google Iana port assignments)
I also do not use auto update except for anti-virus (using free avast) and I wait for service packs for operating system updates. Although I keep firefox updated as best i can and use the adblock addon. (tools >> addons>> see all addons >> search for adblock
I tunes works well on a fast computer with a large amount of ram. Older slower computers, tend to crash a lot with itunes. (just an observation)
Regards
..Ex
Originally posted by El Davicho
Can I block the ports they are going through, and still use the software?
Originally posted by v3_exceed
If you happen to be going through your computer, and find a schwack of underage porn, it's likely that your system was compromised by some kiddie porn group, and you are a patsy. Generally you can find out if your system has been used in this fashion by clicking Start >> run >> cmd>> enter in the dos window type netstat -an >> enter. the left side shows you the available open listen ports, the right connected users to those ports. Some ports are normal the format is 0.0.0.0:port number where the 0.0.0.0 represents your IP address.
Just because your system isn't open on ports 20,21 does not mean you don't have an ftp running on your system. My suggestion would be to download and run the free process explorer utility by Sysinernals which can be grabbed Here
Originally posted by getreadyalready
reply to post by jeasahtheseer
You can never erase things from your harddrive!! NEVER! I have a friend in computer tech for the FBI!