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No speculation at all, it has been true for a very long time. This is not the first time that someone has been caught out with illegal stuff on their computer after taking it in for repair. The most notable case is Garry Glitter who was caught with child porn and that's nearly ten years ago.

The simple fact is that a repair technician is going to look at stuff on your computer as a matter of routine for no other reason to test it is working properly. If he stumbles across something illegal, tough.

Susan Williams

Yeah, you can kill em, eat em, keep em, name em stupid names, get them to sit up and balance biscuits on their noses, but don't have sexysexy with them.

I've seen countless animal sex videos. I'd say that almost all of the time dogs in particular seem to be doing the same as they would to other dogs. I don't think they're that faffed, rather like men who stick their dicks in baguettes.

5 and 8 in one night! 5 and 8 in one night!

The "lesson" here is really "Don't do things which are illegal if you're not clever enough to hide your tracks", because you will get caught. Weather what you're doing is morally or legally an issue is a different matter. If you don't like the law, get it changed through democratic means: but don't complain if you get caught.

Edited 22 Jun 09, 12:44 AM by Christina1394

Sign the statement against criminalisation of possession "extreme" images. Petition against plans to criminalise sexual cartoons appearing to depict anyone under 18.

The fact is they get nothing from such an activity that would assist them in finding a fault on a computer. Its entirely a deliberate invasion of privacy. I build my own computers and havn't needed to visit a repair shop for over 10 years. Unless the guy took his PC in to ask why his movie files where not playing or why his images where not loading there is no valid reason for anybody to be opening them up at the repair shop.

Should that person have those images is not what I'm defending here what I'm defending is that persons privacy. When you invite a Gas Man or Plumber into your house to work on something you don't expect them to go rummaging through your wardrobe, underwear drawer or checking out your DvD collection/favourite holiday snaps.

It's possible the pc user was inexperienced and as someone else suggests left those photos as thumbnails or had descriptive file names in the recently used list but it seems more likely to me that the repair person thought they would look for something incriminating just because they can.

To put it another way, if you reverse this situation and report that a peadophile is looking at customers holiday snaps for the child photos during the time their computer is in the repair shop people would be in outrage that they where allowed to abuse their work role but because its the PC Owner thats found guilty nobody seems to be questioning it.

I'm not defending K pr0n in any way shape or form, but it shows the techy staff ARe trained to look for and report the stuff.

My mate ended up doing a year and is on the SOR for 10 years btw. He lost his job, business and most of his friends.

I had to take my laptop to a website shop a while ago to download some pics for my business, and while the chap in the shop wa scanning through the picture folder noriced a couple of rudies on there, in fact pics that appear here on my profile! He said it's quite common and he showed little other interest in them.

The moral might be for anyone on here who may have "dodgy" pics on their pc to get an independent repair man in to fix it.

Rubber Roy