* Posts by ClockSmith

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I beg you, please don't back up that secret directory full of photos!

ClockSmith
Meh

Don't Look / Don't Tell?

1) Worked in a shop for almost a decade in the early 00's. I'm with the poster above, that I really went full Stevie Wonder during data recovery. I really, really, really don't want to know what all of you do in your spare time.

As a time saving measure, we used to pull drives to the bench linux boxen, and yank the users directories over to a newly imaged drive with scripts. Took us a while to tweak to run just right, but I have no idea what files you had, and I continued to never know. If there were multiple users, each one got their documents tree on the new drive sitting in a directory on their desktop. We found customers appreciated that.

I had several discussions with customers who wanted to install monitoring software on systems because they had kids/teens. I declined to recommend or install it, suggesting good communications with the kids and keeping the computers in a public area of the house.

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2) Back at the end of the 80's and early 90's, I had the experience of being briefed with content pulled from bugging and telephone taps. It was actually very uncomfortable to read transcripts of conversations from people who were not directly involved in the situation, and had no idea that there personal conversations were being recorded for posterity. Made me very aware of communications security and my environment.