But some of them make me wonder just WHAT kind of porn you all are trying to hide!
I guess everyone has a few tastes that they’d like to remain private.
::checks hidden folder::
Yep.
(Note: nothing illegal, just… quirky.)
I tried hiding some under the directory “Recipes”, thinking that my husband would never look there, as he does not cook, has never cooked, and will likely never cook in the future.
This is what I do, 99.9% of the snoopers won’t even be able to run a file search or open a program in Linux, let alone get past the login. And…you can get apps that will open .wmv and .avi files just fine, since another poster asked.
I also find Linux to be much better at stable “multi-porntasking”, such as having a movie running on one desktop, while browsing pictures on a second, and having an innocous straight-dope page on the third for rapid clicking-to when you hear footsteps.
Back in the day when I shared my parents’ computer, my porn was hidden in a subdirectory of a random game I’d installed - which itself was in a directory “games” full of other folders. Chances of anyone browsing to it? Slim to none (especially coz my parents weren’t that computer savvy). The porn folder was called “data” - innocuous. And the subfolders within it were also given non-porn related names.
This was some time ago, so when searching, we’d use DOS. I may be wrong, but I seem to recall that you could search all subdirectories for *.jpg, but it wouldn’t look in hidden directories. If you added the /ah to search hidden files, it would search in hidden directories - but only display hidden files. So hide the directory, don’t hide the files, and you’re fine.
Now I just have all my porn in directories called data1, data2, data3 etc (why change a winning formula?) - all of which are in a directory called “hidden”. Which isn’t hidden. Oh the irony. I’m the only one who uses this PC, so I’m not too worried about snoops.
I’ve just had a look at the properties of that “hidden” directory - 24.7GB… golly. I surpose I’d better make the most of it. 'night all.
Here is a fun little trinket (sorry, Windows only). A guy on another forum wrote this for entertainment. It involves obscenities, I can’t change that but anyway.
I expect so; to be honest, I was considering the problem from the point of view of general web browsing of images. I just happened to notice the inaccessibility of Linux filesystems because the machine from which I’m posting now is dual-boot with Linux, but I use it for trying to learn about Linux, not for porn surfing or watching video content (of course, you may not feel inclined to believe this claim).
Heh, I’m reminded of a friend of mine who attempted to hide his pron, but just from us roomates (we were loose with our computers. We all had laptops, most of us had a desktop too, and so would frequently wander around the house and use each other’s PCs.)
He had all his porn in C:\Stuff. :rolleyes:
C’mon! EVERYONE knows that’s code for ‘porn in here.’
The people here suggesting that because they put it under an inocuous subdirectory are kidding themselves. The first thing a teenager is going to do when he has access to your computer, is search for these files, checking hidden directories and everything. Renaming files en masse to change their extension will help, but that’s a huge pain.
I posted earlier about the E4M package, and someone else pointed out the free program TrueCrypt, which does seem to be the E4M code enhanced and ported to XP. This is the only way to go for sensitive stuff. Its weakness is that, if someone installs a keypress recording program on your PC, it can be broken into. Short of that, its contents can’t be listed, nor files inside it opened.
Pfft, says you. My porn was all on a folder on my home network cleverly labeled “This is not porn.” Nobody would ever think of looking there.
(“Was” because my collection has since exceeded the free space available on that disk. The, ahem, overflow resides on a different network drive in a folder labeled “This is also not porn.”)
Huh, I never got that memo. I’ve had a “stuff” directory on every computer I’ve owned, and I don’t think any of them has ever contained porn. But someone searching for it there might, at least, have been amused by my old school papers, recipes for dandelion salad and broccoli casserole, and photos of canyons, sunsets, and rainbows.
I noticed a few people referred to Windows XP and the “My Recent Documents”. I just found out, quite by accident, that you can completely disable it. It doesn’t even show up on the menu after that. YOu can also clear the list periodically.
You could zip it all to an archive file, delete the old stuff, and then change the files extension. That would prevent the casual searcher from finding any conspicuous video or picture files.
The user privlidges in Windows XP works well. I use that just so my GF can’t accidently erase any of my important files (like porn).
If you are trying to hide it from me, however, you can’t. Our firm uses special software that can take a bit by bit image of your hard drive. We can then search it for anything that looks like it was an image or video file at one point and then restore it. Renaming the extension won’t work because the software uses various algorithms and whatnot to figure out what the file type really is.
Why else would g-mail give you so much storage space?
Seriously though: I’ve always done what msmith537 has done - thrown it all into one zip file and simply changed the extension of that. I also give it a scary name like WST_32i.syf and squirrel it away somewhere.
msmith’s special software is the only thing I can think of that can turn that up - not that your average sniffer dog will have that. Though with the particularly horny, the 20GB file size might be a giveaway.
That said, I’ve been caught out on:
A) The recycle bin.
B) Not clearing up Recent Documents
C) Leaving a page open late night, going straight out to study and coming back with a guest.
