Windows 10 Surfaces Man’s Porn, Shows It To His Wife
I have only been paying the most moderate attention to the tweets and headlines about the massive privacy flaws said to be built into Windows 10. That’s because for me, every new Windows since Windows 98 has been a downgrade. So I never “upgrade” — I only see a new Windows version when I get new hardware. I am the opposite of an early adopter.
One man found out the hard way that Windows 10 did not have his privacy at heart. He left it installing overnight, and when he came down in the morning, his wife was watching a slidehow of all his porn running in a “live tile” on the desktop, stuff that he thought he’d buried in deep and impenetrable sub-sub-folders:
Loaded up WIN 10 last night and left it on to do its thing. Woke up to wife asking why I set it to rotate all my porn images right on the desk top view. I have no idea how to shut that feature off and that computer is staying shut down until I do.
Free windows and a free trip to the doghouse. Thanks Microsoft!!!
Edit: Don’t make my mistake, keep your private pictures out of My Pictures, no matter how deep you hide them in sub folders.
Yes, let’s automatically create a slide show on the desktop of everything we can find in the “My Pictures” folder, users will love that! What could possibly go wrong?
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Heh-heh… Fortunately my girl makes no judgements about my porn choices. One reason she’s my girl. However, a few years back we hired some movers to move large heavy objects to our new address, and the computer table got jostled somehow by a mover in another room, and the monitor woke up and started scrolling through my porn collection. They were gathered around it watching and commenting. It didn’t really bother me too much because they were all obviously enjoying it. But it could have been bad of we were having the preacher over for dinner, because my tastes can be what many would consider extremely unusual…
That’s easy; porn should be stored in a protected folder on an external hard drive, labelled “Error Logs”.
There are three lessons here:
1) Never be an early adopter of new versions of Windows.
2) If you have files you wish to remain hidden, you should never store them in any of the Windows default media directories (even buried in subfolders). There are many, many unobtrusive places you can put them.
3) If you like porn, only date/marry people who can accept that. Grab your balls and be a man.
Bacchuus you are truly a god. thank you for the consistent stream of rational yet passionate info. long time lurking fan. mad props.
Thank you, AA! I appreciate the kind words.
Out of interest, I just checked on my iMac (running OS X Yosemite, but should be same for earlier versions) – if you select the Pictures folder for your screensaver image, it ONLY pulls stuff from that folder. Handy, because I do have some folders within there containing, well, risqué images. ;)
I should add that I’m currently running a copy of Windows 7 inside of a virtual machine for those Windows applications I still have need off. The ‘Get Windows 10’ applet informs me that my ‘system’ is currently unable to run Windows 10 – Parallels Software have yet to update their support drivers. But after hearing people complaining about all the various changes, I’m in no hurry to ‘upgrade’. Even if I do ever come up against a compelling reason why I’d need Windows 10, I’d be sorely tempted to buy a retail copy and install it in a separate virtual machine, for sanity’s sake.
I highly recommend VeraCrypt, the successor to TrueCrypt (which is no longer supported). https://www.idrix.fr/Root/content/category/7/32/46/
Here’s another vote for VeraCrypt. Make sure your important files are A) backed up regularly and B) encrypted. What if your computer is stolen? Or the house burns down? A & B are a necessary minimum.