Would you look through a mate's recent documents?

20-12-2011 05:47PM #1

One of the lads here tellin me it happened before and about ten of his friends saw a clip of him and his girlfriend.. This was years ago when he was about 24. I know I wouldn't look through someones history in case of what I'd see.

So is it fair game or completely out of order?

ntlbell · 20-12-2011 05:47PM

depends what their gf's like

Seachmall · 20-12-2011 05:48PM

No.

But if it's on their desktop just sitting there... waiting... calling me...

later12 · 20-12-2011 05:50PM

If I knew i could profit somehow, why yees, yees I would.

RichieC · 20-12-2011 05:52PM

No, I respect peoples privacy. nobody would trust me to fix their cimputers again if I was like that.

PrincessLola · 20-12-2011 05:53PM

No, but I was quite tempted to look at a friend's search history once.........

but also quite terrified about what I might find.:eek:

FearDark · 20-12-2011 05:53PM

Thanks OP, you reminded me to do something there.

*clears history*

listermint · 20-12-2011 05:55PM

Deleted User wrote: »

One of the lads here tellin me it happened before and about ten of his friends saw a clip of him and his girlfriend.. This was years ago when he was about 24. I know I wouldn't look through someones history in case of what I'd see.

So is it fair game or completely out of order?

you'd be some tool to have that sort of material viewable from a recent items folder.....

Come on, amateur hour.

Ellis Dee · 20-12-2011 05:56PM

As Oscar Wilde famously said, "I can resist anything but temptation.":):):)

20-12-2011 05:58PM

Nah, I would feel to guilty. I have an awful conscience!

I very rarely let people use my computer because I don't want them snooping around.

20-12-2011 05:58PM

FearDark wrote: »

Thanks OP, you reminded me to do something there.

*clears history*

The PedoBear speech bubble made that look fairly dodgy..

Biggins · 20-12-2011 06:05PM

FearDark wrote: »

Thanks OP, you reminded me to do something there.

*clears history*

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TeddyTedson · 20-12-2011 06:05PM

If any of my friends leave their phone in my company I look through it in dept. Text messages, photos the lot. I'm mainly checking to see if they've said or done anything against me behind my back. But I've seen photos of some of them in the nip and read some of the pervy **** they text their other half. You learn a lot about a person.

Carter P Fly · 20-12-2011 06:05PM

I can and regularly do.

smash · 20-12-2011 06:07PM

Lia_lia wrote: »

Nah, I would feel to guilty. I have an awful conscience!

I very rarely let people use my computer because I don't want them snooping around.

Just hide your porn better

Stompbox · 20-12-2011 06:07PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

If any of my friends leave their phone in my company I look through it in dept. Text messages, photos the lot. I'm mainly checking to see if they've said or done anything against me behind my back. But I've seen photos of some of them in the nip and read some of the pervy **** they text their other half. You learn a lot about a person.

If you actually do that, then you can't call that person your 'friend'.

mattjack · 20-12-2011 06:12PM

Sweet wrote: »

If you actually do that, then you can't call that person your 'friend'.

:pac::pac: of course you can

TeddyTedson · 20-12-2011 06:17PM

It's not nice, but If you find a text about you sent to someone, totally justified.

20-12-2011 06:18PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

It's not nice, but If you find a text about you sent to someone, totally justified.

Would you ever confront someone about it?

theTinker · 20-12-2011 06:25PM

After many years of fixing peoples broken computers with the added request of "please save any of my personal data"... I loathe to look in their folders even at thier behest. The dirty mind boggling festishes and interests people have are disturbing. It was a big lesson to me to learn that people have an outside persona, and a very creepy dark ugly kinda raunchy inside persona!

I always wonder what they are thinking when i hand them back a cd of thier personal data and its clearly got something that you dont want ANYONE EVER to know you look at.

Some of it isnt just illegal, its go to hell sort of stuff. *shudders*.. now i just format and reinstall

smash · 20-12-2011 06:26PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

It's not nice, but If you find a text about you sent to someone, totally justified.

F*ck that... How were the nudie pics?

Spunge · 20-12-2011 06:28PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

If any of my friends leave their phone in my company I look through it in dept. Text messages, photos the lot. I'm mainly checking to see if they've said or done anything against me behind my back. But I've seen photos of some of them in the nip and read some of the pervy **** they text their other half. You learn a lot about a person.

May as well snoop in on every conversation, open peoples letters, hack their emails. You never know, they might have said something about you behind your back :rolleyes:

eyesquirm · 20-12-2011 06:33PM

I was going to give out to the whole family recently for downloading weird weird kinky porn.
Then I realised I was the only one who uses that particular pc. :eek:

TeddyTedson · 20-12-2011 06:37PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Would you ever confront someone about it?

It depends how far it went. There's ways of getting your own back without them ever knowing what you know. You could always use it again in the future to confront them over it if something else comes to light. I've never confronted anyone about it anything yet, but I've always gotten satisfactory revenge

Most people actually don't say anything bad about us, we just always naturally think they do. But when you do catch someone out it's justified.

I'm not going to open letter and hack emails:pac: That's going way overboard.

TeddyTedson · 20-12-2011 06:38PM

smash wrote: »

F*ck that... How were the nudie pics?

I should have made back ups of them, could have come in useful someday:p

orourkeda · 20-12-2011 07:08PM

Deleted User wrote: »

One of the lads here tellin me it happened before and about ten of his friends saw a clip of him and his girlfriend.. This was years ago when he was about 24. I know I wouldn't look through someones history in case of what I'd see.

So is it fair game or completely out of order?

When you say "clip" presumably you mean porn. If he filmed himself bangin' some bird and put in a place where it can be viewed he's an idiot and deserves to be looked at.

However, if these "documents" are not for public consumption, not sexually explicit and he has taken reasonable precautions to prevent people seeing them who shouldn't then it is no more than prying on your part

stimpson · 20-12-2011 07:13PM

theTinker wrote: »

Some of it isnt just illegal, its go to hell sort of stuff. *shudders*.. now i just format and reinstall

Pics or GTFO

20-12-2011 07:14PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

It depends how far it went. There's ways of getting your own back without them ever knowing what you know. You could always use it again in the future to confront them over it if something else comes to light. I've never confronted anyone about it anything yet, but I've always gotten satisfactory revenge
Most people actually don't say anything bad about us, we just always naturally think they do. But when you do catch someone out it's justified.

I'm not going to open letter and hack emails:pac: That's going way overboard.

Sorry what? You can count me out of that 'we'. As for it "being justified", it's not. Invading personal privacy is a lot worse than saying someone's an eejit. If someone confronted me after checking my phone, Id write them off as a friend before they finished their sentence. And you actually go and get revenge? Maybe take note of what is being said about you and try change your ways so you can be like the rest of us.. Not a paranoid mess.

Aoifey! · 20-12-2011 07:20PM

The other day I was using my friend's phone to text someone. It was a Blackberry and I didn't really know how to use it. I went into pictures by mistake and there were tons of naked pictures of her and her boyfriend.

20-12-2011 07:20PM

orourkeda wrote: »

When you say "clip" presumably you mean porn. If he filmed himself bangin' some bird and put in a place where it can be viewed he's an idiot and deserves to be looked at.

However, if these "documents" are not for public consumption, not sexually explicit and he has taken reasonable precautions to prevent people seeing them who shouldn't then it is no more than prying on your part

What are precautions? Locking it in a rar file on a separate partition inside a virtual operating system? Or is a private folder enough?

As far as I'm concerned, once it's not in my browser or xbmc, I shouldn't have to worry..

TheMilkyPirate · 20-12-2011 07:26PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

If any of my friends leave their phone in my company I look through it in dept. Text messages, photos the lot. I'm mainly checking to see if they've said or done anything against me behind my back. But I've seen photos of some of them in the nip and read some of the pervy **** they text their other half. You learn a lot about a person.

You just sound like a paranoid wreck to me.

And a shit friend.

Would you look through a mate's recent documents?

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