Do You Shoulder Surf?

Black Swan · 08-11-2009 06:43AM #1

Can you resist the temptation to LOOK at someone else's computer screen when walking by, or from a table behind them at university, business, Internet hotspot, or elsewhere?

I got the feeling that someone was looking over my shoulder at my screen in a coffeehouse earlier today, and told the lad I was PMing. Of course he aids their efforts by increasing the font size from the standard 2 to 7 just so they can read it better from afar. (You don't want to know what he said!)

liah · 08-11-2009 06:46AM

I hate myself for it, but it is kind of irresistible. I hate being inquisitive sometimes

TestTransmission · 08-11-2009 06:51AM

Constantly,

MrStuffins · 08-11-2009 06:53AM

I'm looking over your shoulder right now...........

....... i just hope those girls are over 18

minidazzler · 08-11-2009 06:54AM

I do it from time to time!!! But I am VERY PARANOID when it happens to me!!!

When I am on an IM client I will minimise it, I will change to Youtube and just not use anything else when someone is near me.

When outside and random people are using the interwebs I do look, at home I just don't care!!!

I only look when outside in the hope a boardsie is using boards or someone is on different websites I use!!!!

Black Swan · 08-11-2009 06:59AM

MrStuffins wrote: »

I'm looking over your shoulder right now...........

....... i just hope those girls are over 18

Oooooo, I wonder which one you are of the two lads behind us in this javahouse?

MrStuffins · 08-11-2009 07:05AM

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Oooooo, I wonder which one you are of the two lads behind us in this javahouse?

BOTH!

Black Swan · 08-11-2009 07:07AM

MrStuffins wrote: »

BOTH!

Oh... that explains it! I'm seeing double after drinking too much at the earlier football game house party!

08-11-2009 11:09AM

Yea I have a glance.. I don't stare tho.

laoisforliam · 08-11-2009 11:28AM

Yeah I do. Big whoop, wanna fight about it?

Abi · 08-11-2009 11:38AM

No I don't, I couldn't give a shyte what they are looking at tbph.

brummytom · 08-11-2009 11:39AM

Sometimes, but I'm amazingly nosey. Just a quick look though, I don't stare.

I hate it when people do it to me though.. I get amazingly paranoid if I'm using a computer in public

DigiGal · 08-11-2009 11:51AM

i can't believe nobody has clicked only when there is porn yet

08-11-2009 12:02PM

DigiGal wrote: »

i can't believe nobody has clicked only when there is porn yet

Done :cool:

Mint Sauce · 08-11-2009 12:05PM

DigiGal wrote: »

i can't believe nobody has clicked only when there is porn yet

never had the opertunity

laugh · 08-11-2009 12:10PM

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

(You don't want to know what he said!)

Statements like this make baby jesus/mohammed etc cry.

It would have made zero difference to your post if you had not included this.

WHAT DID HE SAY?

shamblertine · 08-11-2009 12:14PM

liah wrote: »

I hate myself for it, but it is kind of irresistible. I hate being inquisitive sometimes

Its not inquisitive its just plain nosey and rude. I'm going to masturbate later, wanna come round and peer through the keyhole at me?

Black Swan · 09-11-2009 12:54AM

Tilted my laptop screen almost flat against the table today in a coffeehouse Internet hotspot to make it hard to read from a distance, and I guess that really got everyone's curiosity, because I noticed almost everyone taking sneak peaks as they walked by. LOL that was self-defeating!

liah · 09-11-2009 12:57AM

shamblertine wrote: »

Its not inquisitive its just plain nosey and rude. I'm going to masturbate later, wanna come round and peer through the keyhole at me?

It's not nosey or rude, it's a quick glance I'm not even conscious of and when I am I immediately look away, and by the responses it's not like it's unusual behaviour, either.

irish_goat · 09-11-2009 01:00AM

I do it in the college computer rooms to make sure other people are dossing on facebook etc so I won't feel guilty for not doing college work.:p

aDeener · 09-11-2009 01:18AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Done :cool:

but does one not have to look in the first place to know whether its porn or not :P

rizzee · 09-11-2009 01:22AM

I thought this thread was to do with boogeyboarding except on your shoulders

Fucking hate my life.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 09-11-2009 01:23AM

liah wrote: »

It's not nosey or rude, it's a quick glance I'm not even conscious of and when I am I immediately look away, and by the responses it's not like it's unusual behaviour, either.

So...that's a no...?

we'llallhavetea_old · 09-11-2009 01:25AM

shamblertine wrote: »

Its not inquisitive its just plain nosey and rude. I'm going to masturbate later, wanna come round and peer through the keyhole at me?

ok

5starpool · 09-11-2009 01:26AM

I thought this thread was about crowdsurfing at first.

pikachucheeks · 09-11-2009 01:54AM

I think it's normal to 'shoulder surf' ... Humans are naturally quite inquisitive.

When I'm in college computer rooms, I normally have a little glance at what people on either side of me are looking at. I wouldn't read what they were typing, I'd just be interested to see what websites they were on.

I was sitting in a hotel lobby on Friday night, on my laptop, availing of the free wifi, as it wasn't available in my room.
This guy staggered out of the bar, came up behind me, and shouted "BOARDS! SHE'S ON BOARDS!" whilst shaking my shoulders violently.
Then he just walked off ... weird.

If anyone would like to own up to the guy being them, I'd much appreciate it. I've been pondering his possible username ever since!

rizzee · 09-11-2009 01:58AM

pikachucheeks wrote: »

If anyone would like to own up to the guy being them, I'd much appreciate it. I've been pondering his possible username ever since!

Sorry

:pac:

Pygmalion · 09-11-2009 02:14AM

I do a computing course, so my labs consist of being done early and glancing around the room until I decide it's ok to leave (Either when someone else leaves or a few other people are ****ing around on Facebook).

I think I've noticed some other people doing it too, alt-tabbing back to the code whenever the lecturer walks in :P

liah · 09-11-2009 02:15AM

Paris Fierce Pensioner wrote: »

So...that's a no...?

It's still a yes.. I'm still doing it at the end of it all, aren't I?

i71jskz5xu42pb · 09-11-2009 02:42AM

Love this from bash.org

<Night-hen-gayle> I gotta go. There's a dude next to me and he's watching me type, which is sort of starting to creep me out. Yes dude next to me, I mean you.

Tar.Aldarion · 09-11-2009 03:14AM

Yeah I look at my housemates laptop..she looks at mine...it ends up with us typing things like in that bash quote.

Also being on bash.org is one of my greatest achievements ha

Cupcake_Crisis · 09-11-2009 09:02AM

I always do! Its a really bad habit!

LEIN · 09-11-2009 09:12AM

Sometimes.

Banter Joe · 09-11-2009 09:56AM

Mckenna Loud Transmitter wrote: »

Love this from bash.org

That site's hilarious.

<Khassaki> HI EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!
<Judge-Mental> try pressing the the Caps Lock key
<Khassaki> O THANKS!!! ITS SO MUCH EASIER TO WRITE NOW!!!!!!!
<Judge-Mental> fuck me

Black Swan · 10-11-2009 05:27AM

*Shoulder surfing survey...

"Whilst most (78 per cent) admitted to shoulder surfing their fellow travellers – usually out of curiosity (44 per cent) or boredom (15 per cent) – a sizeable majority (68 per cent) said that they felt uncomfortable or vulnerable to other travellers shoulder surfing their own laptops."

Source: http://www.prosecurityzone.com/Customisation/News/IT_Security/Mobile_computing_security/Shoulder_surfing_a_recognised_problem_for_technology_journalists.asp

(*Try and say this real fast several times to see if you get tongue tied! Shoulder surfing survey... Shoulder surfing survey...)

Do You Shoulder Surf?

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