Put my Gf's fears to rest - With out the HDD they can't see her nude pics

[imported_Champ]

everything was going fine until this. Now she is reading wiki articles.

haha win!

 

[Sedition]

So she never found the thread you made in L&R showing us those pics? With the face blurred out of course... good thinking btw. What if somebody she knew saw those? You'd be in some deep shit.

come on now.

 

[Farang]

OP will PM pics if you ask.. she is pretty cute but the nipples are a bit off

 

[Sedition]

OP will PM pics if you ask.. she is pretty cute but the nipples are a bit off

mother fuckers.

Damn you anandtech damn you.

 

[Kalmah]

OP will PM pics if you ask.. she is pretty cute but the nipples are a bit off

My desktop wallpaper just got a lot nicer.

 

[Patt]

So she's pissed already ... might as well finish the job by posting pics ...

 

[Sedition]

Well you all ruined it. No pics for you guys. I'm done.

 

[IronWing]

God damn it. Now you have her freaking out about the SD cards. Seriously this came back to bite me in the ass.

Pics of her biting you in the ass?

 

[Patt]

well you all ruined it. No pics for you guys. I'm done.

 

[Fritzo]

Only certain types of pics stay resident in the system memory- please post the files and I'll take a look at the coding to make sure they aren't this type of file.

 

[gorcorps]

So she's pissed already ... might as well finish the job by posting pics ...

You didn't see the L&R thread either? She's a keeper. We all gave her 8 to 9s out of 10 for the body.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

I knew this was a troll to begin with. What real AT member takes their computer in to a repair shop?

 

[Scouzer]

your girlfriend is a dumbass. IT'S NOT POSSIBLE

 

[KeithTalent]

KT

 

[cliftonite]

1.21 actually.

Out of luck. I have some upgraded units in my Nigerian wharehouse. If you are willing to Paypal me the necessary funds, I will have my associates ship them to you.

 

[Hacp]

Send me your HDD. I'll make sure to wipe the pics.

 

[BurnItDwn]

You could have placed them into a zip or a rar file with a strong password. The only "crack" out there for them these days are brute force, meaning if you used a decent 12 or 16 digit strong password, it would likely take an army of a million computers over a year to break.

Drive Physically removed from computer = no way they can see the files.

In theory, they MIGHT be resident in memory, but, they would have to pull the info within about 30 seconds or so of the computer being shut down, much beyond that, they can't really read anything from the memory.

Please note: If you "deleted" the files, and thought they were gone, then they could be read with just about any disk/partition recovery software.....


Explanation so that your GF can understand it: (also most 1st graders will understand it. I certainly hope your GF isn't actually a first grader, cause that would be pretty fvcked up!)

I have a piece of paper with a X written on it.
It's inside of a box.

I take the piece of paper out of the box.
I put the piece of paper in my pocket.

I mail the empty box to Dell

Does Dell see what's written on the piece of paper?

 

[DivideBYZero]

I have a piece of paper with a X written on it.
It's inside of a box.

I take the piece of paper out of the box.
I put the piece of paper in my pocket.

I mail the empty box to Dell

Does Dell see what's written on the piece of paper?

Yes, because of the persistent memory of the box that lasts for 9 years.

 

[GeekDrew]

Ttiwwp

edit: The VB software doesn't allow all caps? Weak

The software does, but the admins don't. Not quite so weak.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Yes, because of the persistent memory of the box that lasts for 9 years.

Everyone knows cardboard is an absorbent material which works off of osmosis.

 

[GeekDrew]

Here's a thought: either she accepts your argument (that files are only permanently stored on hard drives in most computers, and files copied to RAM or other volatile media will be completely gone after the machine is powered down), which is the truth, or she goes out and buys you an equivalent computer. Tonight.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

i have some info, but require pics first

 

[Terabyte]

Damn man....she is smoking hawt. I'd tap that anyday. She's got a nice rack and a tight round booty.

moar pics pls!

 

[DrPizza]

Okay I'll ruin the fun. If the hard drive is out of the computer you're safe. Even if it was stored in your memory (RAM) it would have been cleared once you shut down.

Now where's the pics damnit.

As Fobot pointed out, that's not necessarily true about RAM.

You could have placed them into a zip or a rar file with a strong password. The only "crack" out there for them these days are brute force, meaning if you used a decent 12 or 16 digit strong password, it would likely take an army of a million computers over a year to break.

Ironically, you believe that deleting something won't make it go away, but encrypting it will? What do you think encryption does? Magically make the original unencrypted stuff vanish from the hard drive? Nope, it saves a new copy - this time encrypted - and deletes the old unencrypted copy. Now, if you originally save it in an encrypted form, you're fine. But, if you're RARing them, I assume it's already on the hard drive.

edit: I heard a collective "uh oh" of muffled voices after I hit reply.

 

[MrMatt]

Dude she sounds like she's looking for an excuse to flip out.

The photos are stored permanently on the HDD. If you take that out, there is NO other way that the system you send in would have the pictures in it. Where would they be stored? The RAM clears almost instantly, and definitely each time you shut off the computer. If she's actually googling all the things that people in this thread are talking about then she's gullible, or just looking for an excuse to be a pain in the ass.