WARNING: Be Careful About Porn on Your USB Drive!!!!

[stinkynuts]

I put a bunch of porn on my USB drive (movie clips of facials), and hid them 7 or 8 folders deep, just in case.

I also had my powerpoint presentation on it. When I inserted it into the USB drive when I was doing my presentation, I kid you not, all the porn files (pictures displayed as previews) projected onto the screen. I immediately yanked it out, but it was too late, about 20 people saw the gallery of "thumbnails". I heard one person say, "What the fuck?!"

It seems some computers will immediately display all media files (movies, pictures, etc), not matter where they are located.

Nobody said anything afterwards, but I could not concentrate during the presentation because I was so frazzled.

Has anything similar happened to anyone else?

 

[hoodoomeister]

Once, I was trying to surf for porn and couldn't get anything but powerpoint presentations of stock prices. Kind of the same, but alot more frustrating.

 

[MuffinMuncher]

Yet another example of why you should NEVER mix business and pleasure!

 

[C Dick]

Definitely worth the price of the extra USB device so that can't happen. Once at the office while surfing porn, I pressed something that made a printout of the list of sites on the screen. Nobody was in the office but me, fortunately I walked past the printer and found it before someone else did.

 

[fuji]

I was doing my presentation, I kid you not, all the porn files (pictures displayed as previews) projected onto the screen.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

What I wouldn't give to have been there, and seen the look on your face as all that gash flashed up on your screen.

Sorry dude, you are SCREWED, but that made my day.

 

[Berlin]

USB drives.

It seems some computers will immediately display all media files (movies, pictures, etc), not matter where they are located.

Not the ones I have. My PC's, both laptop and desk tops, would only display the prompt as usual, as to what you exactly you want to do : play media, open files ...etc.

My Mac laptop doesn't do that either.

I have to agree with C Dick, use a clean drive for work related stuff. Stinky, WTF you were thinking ???

 

[ig-88]

This reminds me of a Staples commercial a few years ago, where some guys were doing a poorly prepared presentation, and a "weird" picture popped up. All the people in the board room had this WTF look on their faces, and the guys just said, "uh, slide 8 ... just ignore it."

Yeah, as others said, keep stuff on different USB sticks. Besides, USB sticks usually don't have enough storage to store a lot of porn.

 

[raven@mirage]

I put a bunch of porn on my USB drive (movie clips of facials), and hid them 7 or 8 folders deep, just in case.

I also had my powerpoint presentation on it. When I inserted it into the USB drive when I was doing my presentation, I kid you not, all the porn files (pictures displayed as previews) projected onto the screen. I immediately yanked it out, but it was too late, about 20 people saw the gallery of "thumbnails". I heard one person say, "What the fuck?!"

It seems some computers will immediately display all media files (movies, pictures, etc), not matter where they are located.

Nobody said anything afterwards, but I could not concentrate during the presentation because I was so frazzled.

Has anything similar happened to anyone else?

I always knew that. that is on usb drives ... I do not put pictures on them the same thing wih SD cards and external harddrives

I keep one for "normal" stuff and one for porn "normal" stuff

"normal" what really is normal anyway.

 

[stang]

Save me a seat for your next presentation.

 

[lay-mann]

Save me a seat for your next presentation.

Good thinking but he just might disappoint you at his next presentation.

I agree a separate usb is the answer (they are so affordable now). My computers show automatically blank thumbnails only when I insert usb or memory cards, probably the way it was setup.

Not sure if it is still a concern, I have seen unwanted pop ups at home and at work when connected to the internet. So just imagine you do your presentation and have forgotten to turn off your wireless. I guess the security software and anti-popup software these days take care of this especially if you dial up the security to veyr high. But you just never know. Any suggestion whether this is still a potential problem?

Definitely don't mix business with personal stuff as someone had said.

 

[DshRipRock]

I suspect your not going to get that contract if that's what you were presenting. I would have paid to see that presentation!!

How much are USB drives? 20 bucks?

 

[thewheelman]

You should not let your USB out of your pants without protection.

Condom for your USB ---> http://www.truecrypt.org/

 

[xix]

Cheap

I suspect your not going to get that contract if that's what you were presenting. I would have paid to see that presentation!!

How much are USB drives? 20 bucks?

To some people that is to much money. They rather risk their 50k plus job instead of paying $20.00.

Go figure

 

[Worf]

That was funny.

So, what was the presentations about?

 

[CapitalGuy]

Your reputation will never recover from that incident. How horribly embarassing.

 

[BACKRUBbuzzard]

Once a female client of mine who lived in Sherbrooke and who I had never met (just flirted with on the phone) e-mailed me some pictures of her new house. It opened up in Windows Fax and Picture Viewer and as I kept clicking, the fourth picture was of this naked girl who I of course thought was the Sherbrooke client. Then I thought WTF I've seen this pose before and it turned out to be a picture (NOT DOWNLOADED) from some SP's website, that Picture Viewer retains.

That and that darn GOOGLE SEARCH will soon be the end of some of us

 

[fuji]

It took me well over a day to stop laughing. Now that I have, here is some serious advice:

http://www.truecrypt.com

Learn to use it.

 

[CapitalGuy]

It took me well over a day to stop laughing. Now that I have, here is some serious advice:

http://www.truecrypt.com

Learn to use it.

Thanks for the truecrypt link, fuji. For those of us who are real computer amateurs at anything beyond simply using Office, can you please give us a brief summary of what truecrypt does? Thanks..

 

[agentpeter]

That and that darn GOOGLE SEARCH will soon be the end of some of us

What do you mean about google search?

 

[fuji]

Thanks for the truecrypt link, fuji. For those of us who are real computer amateurs at anything beyond simply using Office, can you please give us a brief summary of what truecrypt does? Thanks..

TrueCrypt creates a "volume file" that you can mount as a drive by typing in a password. So you might have C:\volumefile and mount it as your X: drive by typing a password. The X: drive then works exactly like a normal drive but all the contents are really stored in the encrypted volumefile. The volume file could also be on a USB key. The volume file is encrypted with fairly heavy-duty encryption algorithms so no-one will be able to mount it unless they know your password.

TrueCrypt also has an option for "plausible denyability". It can create a volume file that can be mounted with one of two different passwords. With one password it loads up a drive with some sensitive looking documents you didn't really need to keep secret. With a different password it mounts up your real partition full of porn or whatever. That way if anyone ever detects the volume file and forces you to provide a password, you can give the "safe" password and they will never be able to figure out that there is a 2nd password that leads to the real content.

You'd then be safe from what happened to stinkynuts because when you stuck the USB key in you ALSO have to type in the password for the contents to come up. On top of that, if someone picked up the USB key and stuck it on their computer they would not be able to read the contents unless they knew your password.