What do people keep on their computers? Excluding obvious things like games or programs like word music player etc.
What is the data they keep or generate? And how do they keep it (folder structure)? And where (server, local, encrypted)?
I'm extremely interested on this subject. I look into what other people have on their PCs if I can behind their back. The most WTF moment was when I have seen some normie who apparently did record porno with his phone that was playing on his PC and also recorded himself masturbating to the video, we are talking penis in full view of the screen.
He also apparently recorded his own screen (correct screen recording not phone to screen) while he was chating on facebook and then watching some pirated stream. I say apparently because either he did record this or he has some spyware who records his screen and dumps it into a file. Is Win10 coming with this build in now?
Rest was practically nothing.
For me oh boy if anyone ever tries to look into my files. good luck its like a galaxy. The hierarchy is deep and starts with strange words then goes to literally single numbers and single alphabet letters. That has meaning only to me and lets me navigate fast. I have shit loads of data: >Self generated project my scripts, my drawings, my recording of my life, my 3D models. >Saved conversations from Jow Forums and other places (this conversation also goes into the archive) >Saved videos and text from interesting people like Terry Davis >Pirated music and films + programs/games >Personal stuff from work >Also entire repos of actual git code because apparently the corporation does not give a shit and I still have the code of their entire program despite not working there now. Corporations leak their code like crazy! >Hot stuff like bills and things with MY personal data, things I go crazy over if this ever leaks (fuck corporations and their code!) [To be continued]
>Intelligence agency/doxx file on other people Oh so you say this is your brother and you are now 30 years old?! Into the file it goes with your birth date. Did you know? Jazzer youtube.com/channel/UCHu2KNu6TtJ0p4hpSW7Yv7Q and Shad youtube.com/user/shadmbrooks Are brothers? They say it themselves! youtube.com/watch?v=RF9y43a31JU And Jazzer broke Shads toys? They say it themselves! Not really identity theft if you place this info yourself out there bro. Also not hardcore levels of info. >Doxx/identity theft on other people The hardcore stuff not the kiddy stuff from above. >Basically links to interesting websites and channels for my own benefit >Porn that goes from 1 SFW (Victoria secrets fully clothed), 2 nude (no sexual ), 3 normie(your youporn is here), 4 abnormal, 5 degenerate, 6 BAN, 7 NO! Excluding the classifications that are so strange they exit this classification into their own category like people considering this porn: youtube.com/watch?v=d2DjgY585Qs&list=PLxKmnUCMBt7ipk3CzLptG8b7AL5L7B4b- This is considered porn and has people masturbating to this. When your so degenerate your porn is SFW youtube ready its simply fascinating to watch and you simply can not help archiving this.
All archived in a disconnected from the internet computer using encryption with crazy ciphers. Me mixing of all data types will at least confuse anyone who ever manages to crack my archive. This is considered a benefit.
So what do you archive and what do other people archive?
I use a window manager, that's all security needed for my files. 99% of people wouldn't be able to open a program, even less would be able to view my files. Encryption is overkill unless you're doing illegal stuff.
Aaron Brown
I love to know you personally and make a bet with you. I get access to your computer I don't delete, I don't install anything however all the data I get from your computer is my property and you shut up about it. Consider it the price of me educating you hard. >I use a window manager, What does this even mean? 1 Get to your PC 2 insert linux live CD 3 boot from live CD and copy or look at files
>b-b-b-b-b-b-b muh passwords are worthless also copied and mine now >b-b-b-b-b-b-b I don't have a setup that boots form live CD checkmate hacker! I go into bios and switch it then switch it back >b-b-b-b--b-b my bios has a password on it checkmate hacker! I could remove the battery and delete the password however considering that I don't want to make permanent changes I simply unplug your HDD and plug it into my PC with cables and use my OS to get all your data >muh window manager, I have no idea what you are even talking about.
Remember if its not encrypted its open. Passwords have the strength of a checkbox saying: >I don't want you to look at my files And 2 buttons >OK (nothing will happen) >ignore (you get full access to all files) Funny that windows 95 did have a cancel option on the password login. that worked exactly like this. And all passwords have this strength since forever. The picture shows how your password security or other crap looks to me.
>1 Get to your PC >2 insert linux live CD >3 boot from live CD and copy or look at files listen here faggot I kidnap you I torture you I extract the keys for the world's strongest possible encryption by breaking you
what do you do? Nothing! That's what is trying to say. Encryption is overkill unless you're doing illegal stuff. If someone gets down to it, you'll be fucked anyway
Brody Nelson
>listen here faggot All bullshit since i can access your files without you knowing it. Kind of hard to do it if you are torturing me is it?
>I torture you >what do you do? You are so funny encryption is the most basic safety everyone needs to adopt. It keeps the content of your HDD safe from people who will insert the HDD after you sell it or get it after you throw it away.
Its the minimum you should be doing. Or are you proposing everyone use Thermite to burn their HDDs?
>Encryption is overkill Why? >I torture you Who are you the NSA? Because I give up the key if they demand it. Encryption is not there to prevent the NSA from getting access to your files if they want its from random strangers getting your nude photos etc and posting them online in the next fappening.
Holy fuck this is paranoid, no one knows how to do half of that, and the majority of those who know wouldn't risk if just to view my useless files. I don't store my passwords in plaintext on my computer so if you want I could screenshare and you could look at everything you wanted. Choose screensharing program and ill show you (has to work on linux).
Jeremiah Diaz
>I kidnap you >I torture you You are so funny. You seriously think this is possible for civilians? real civilian abduction (you can only kidnap a child fagot) is impossible today. All civilian abductions are fake and the gov blaming their torture-eliminations of their enemies on random people or on other gov enemies.
>I kidnap you Security cameras have your face and Id with the global tracking database everywhere you go. You just recorded yourself attacking me. You just have yourself recorded with me walking with my gov tracking device (cellphone) and your gov tracking device if you are extra retarded enjoy the geo location data fagot.
You walked me to your car that not only has build in tracking devices in itself it also has the licence plate photo recognized using AIs and tracked with every security camera in the area I live in. And the driver also is recognized by the camera AI so you have a nice box over your head showing your gov id number at all times.
And you are tracked all the time. Where will you go? The gov hates competition and will simply eliminate you idiots for it also to keep up the good old myth of intelligent civilian "kidnappings" and show why spying of the gov is a good thing and stops crime.
This is fucken minority report at this point where intelligent crimes are impossible and only idiots and crimes of passion exist who are eliminated super fast.
I mean if the gov was more open and the police unions where not so strong the middleman of the police would be eliminated and you Jaywalking would instantly result in you getting your bank balance charged with a nice note and link to the video and social credit reduction like in china.
Enjoy being killed and blamed for 20+ other crimes that you did not do(the gov eliminations need to be blamed on someone) by the gov because you wanted to abduct me.
>no one knows how to do half of that t. tech illiterate
Christian Lewis
> I don't store my passwords in plaintext on my computer user plz. How do you think all these services can "keep me logged in" and "remember my password" is it magic? You can extract all kinds of stuffs. Remember the program that simply extracts windows serial numbers from the windows registry? All there only a little more hidden under rot13s older brother.
Gavin Barnes
*t. Knows how little normalfags actually know about technology. Only one person I know even know that computers actually have a bios and I doubt he couldn't bypass a bios password.
Bentley Morgan
*he couldn't bypass a bios with password
Evan Sanders
>*t. Knows how little normalfags actually know I know 99% of all idiots know nothing about it. However I'm only commenting that someone who knows can go around it.
And the irony of someone trying to lecture me on this. And saying encryption is overkill. I'm only giving free advice here.
Fun fact after training even your office cleaner can do all of this and more. However encryption stops all of this. Passwords are literally a 3~4 minut stop measure or a normie prevention mechanism.
Encryption stops all of this had. Remember to encrypt. Passwords are worth shit!
Colton Long
Im well aware how those work. Those keep tokens, not passwords. I just relog and your tokens are useless. Also, im pretty sure you wouldnt get far with those as many services remember the IP you used the token from.
Aiden Cook
Teach me then! I've offered to let you view my files yet you haven't taken my offer yet.
Jose Flores
>Those keep tokens user plz. If someone wanted to fuck with you hard he can get your passwords.
1 Login into account because have token. 2 change password in account. 3 enjoy.
>IP you used the token from. user plz. Think before you write this. I'm in your place physically the IP is the same IP your computer is connected from.
If I have physical access I bet I have access to your modem and can use your internet. Stop believing government propaganda about hackers hacking from different IPs
>Teach me then! I've offered to let you view my files yet you haven't taken my offer yet. Send your HDD to me or place your disc image so that I can download it.
Blake Sanchez
Good luck changing my password without knowing it. Very few services lets you do that. I'll upload my root folder to mega.nz, give me some time
Luke Watson
>I'll upload my root folder to mega.nz, give me some time OK. I consider it you consenting to my activities so its all legal under the cyber crime prevention act. All legal and consensual here.
not him but its all on google drive and I gvfs-google or something shows it to me on nautilius
Daniel Gray
Thanks for the response. What is the data you keep or generate? And how do you keep it (folder structure)?
Adrian Sanders
OP here just was made aware of the fact that parrots go crazy over computer keyboards. All videos are downloaded into the archive under what translates to (reverse order)
I couldn't zip my root folder recursively, just got a bunch of errors and it took time (even with sudo). I zipped my home folder instead, with all my personal files. I haven't cleaned anything
Gabriel Walker
>I couldn't zip my root folder recursively, just got a bunch of errors and it took time (even with sudo Did you consider to simply write the zip to a separate drive? And exclude /dev/ ? Of course you get errors because you will try to zip the zip itself etc.
> I haven't cleaned anything Thanks i look into it. I hope you did not throw me shit like some CP because I will need to report you to the police for that.
Justin Myers
Data is structured in folder with names of the subject in a treestyle and encrypted.
I keep everything that i find usefull. Books on every subject, programs, pictures exc. Something similar like you OP.
Daily remindr to encrypt. use 7z encrypt the 7z ( hide folder structure) and use some hard random number string for cipher. Post cipher here and post link to mega.
One second, forgot to do recursive on my home folder, thats why i deleted it. Will upload again, will do root now, without /dev/
Luke Wilson
Take your pills, security schizo. No one cares about your kiddy porn.
Liam Gonzalez
>encrypted. Bonus points for doing the smart thing.
> of the subject in a treestyle >Something similar like you OP.
Did you work long and hard on your hierarchy style?
My was forged in fire! Every time the old one bloated and became hard to find it was evolved. Some remnants of the old style remain and involve a long and deeply philosophical thinking about the nature of data to even begin to understand how its arranged now.
Jacob Jones
>without /dev/ remember to write the zip to a external HDD or whatever(exclude the ziped destination area ). Or it will try to zip itself.
Michael Myers
I change the structure for bloated ones and try to debloat them. Also using numbers, words exc. It just keeps growing, and I keep adding new things.
Nathan Robinson
Removed steam root directory as it caused some trouble. I couldn't get zipping the root directory to work. Here's my home directory anyways.
What is the philosophy you use for classifying data?
My is a strange mixture at this point since I'm in version 7 of my structure and there are things from the 1 one here I keep them since it helps me to get faster to my things.
Basically I classify the data under these categories A) How damaging is this to me if this leaks?
0 = linux ISOs freeware program installers basically I can give this to people for free 9 = my life is over. Things that have my SSN on them (copy's of contracts) medical data about me.
8 = me making naked photos of myself.
The corporate source code I have is like a 5 not going to place it all over the place however its practically not damaging to me if it gets out. minimal possibility to trace back to me and the corporation dose not give a shit about its code getting out.
B) Did I create this?
We have >Other people >Me shitposting (this conversation will be archived here) >Me personal >Me school/university >Me for work
Then above this is a even stranger classification that basically is about if the data was archived or if I have copies of it.
>As for consent, I consent to viewing my files. But not sharing them or using them to doxx me (if you can). Cool. I will keep this in mind.
Also remember to not try to trick me. If you zipped a gigantic folder full CP I will contact the police about this, to keep myself safe (gay sex or lemon party etc will not get the police involved).
Xavier Rivera
videos, movies, images, everything.
Documents/ Videos/ Pictures/ Extra/
I just throw everything there in their respective "folder"
Michael Harris
It's quite a recent install so don't complain about the lack of personal files
Parker Sullivan
I keep them like a library with books on different topics. But some are numerical which i need immediately follwing a sentence and a short description tree style. I try to keep them very simple since it makes stuff easiers when I expand them later on. I dont try to keep any personal info that might damage me this is delete immediately. I dont sell my HDD or anything i just destroy them.
Gavin Peterson
I recommend at least separating stuff you create VS stuff other people have created.
do you? >Record things with your video camera? >Take photos? >Write your dreams or other writings of yourself? >Write your own programs? >Create mathematical (excel) simulations and calculations about your life?
Because you can remember what you created and can easily find it.
>Documents/ >Videos/ >Pictures/ >Extra/ Oh this reminds me of version 1 it was a nightmare that burned in the fires of hell and was replaced.
Consider the most basic problem you have Video and TXT abotu one subject now they are eperated.
Lets take the parrot example I'm archiving now I also have this picture I downloaded. Do you separate these things into Documents and Videos? Lets say you want to see or post these parrots destroying computer keyboards. You see the problem?
The fandom folder is something that did come over from real fandomes like superman fandom jojo fandome etc. Only I adopted the name for animals since it looks like animals also have fandoms or things that are basically this.
So for my classification in the Animal fandoms/Parrots/Keyboards and parrots I will simply create 2 folders Video and Pictures
All Videos will be moved to the Video folder and all the Pictures into the picture folder to create Animal fandoms/Parrots/Keyboards and parrots/Video Animal fandoms/Parrots/Keyboards and parrots/Pictures And if someoen makes a funny post about the subject of Parrors destroying keyboards I will make a Animal fandoms/Parrots/Keyboards and parrots/funny TXT folder Did this help you? What do you think about this?
for example I have a video of a guy creating a car that looks exactly like the car from night rider. Where do you think I can find it? fandoms/knight rider And if I get more things in there fandoms/knight rider/video
>I dont try to keep any personal info that might damage me this is delete immediately good practice however sometimes this is impossible. Oh how I dream of the good old days when we only shitposted and did have pirated crap on our PCs so anyone can look in there.
Sometimes you get Xrays from the doctor in digital form (fuck you computer revolution) or need to keep documents that literally have things like your SSN on them.
Would you take naked photos of yourself? Or is this something to "hot" for your archive? (arguably the most damaging legal thing to have)
I do it however it only stays local in my disconnected and encrypted archive. And all transfers to and from it are on flash media that are kept internally or encrypted themselves to move around.
> I dont sell my HDD or anything i just destroy them. Smart move. Remember if its encrypted even if someone steals your HDD he will be unable to see anything on it and simply format it to use it; keeping your data safe and not seen.
Julian Hill
Found anything of value yet?
Mason Edwards
I wouldn't get naked photos of myself since I dont consider myself attractive. Personaly I dislike myself on photos. I just look weird. But for personal stuff like your SSN or similar I can understand. Gotta keep it safe. But for personal stuff like you mentioned I would keep a external HDD or USB flash media. which is disconected from the internet.
David Garcia
Thank you for your sharing only I was more interested in your personal archive not the fingerprints all your programs/system generates.
for example is the word "Emoji Store" saying something to you? is the gmail address that begins with a B and ends with a R mean anything to you?
You like playing minecraft? Do you use discord a lot? spotify?
Have no fear I'm not going to doxx you.
Nice pictures of ships and water BTW did you download them for me?
What did you want me to do with this? Post what you think I found out about you correctly or wrongly.
Base windows install, the usual development software and tools, a fuckload of occult books/roleplay books/art books and a large photoshop folder for my photography projects.
Jordan Wilson
You sound like a schizo autist faggot. Would shoot if you entered my home or touched my PC. This will make good copypasta, though.
Lucas Jones
Emoji storage is most likely from discord, it was no surprise you could figure out I had discord, minecraft and Spotify installed.
I'm interested (and impressed) where you found my mail though, where did you find it?
I just wanted to show you why encryption ment overkill for me. It's not like I'm terribly scared of someone getting my mail at worst.
As for water pics, I went to wg to find good grub wallpapers. Also check sys folder for 2 more wallpapers.
Mason Miller
>I'm interested (and impressed) where you found my mail though, where did you find it? Aha you see I can post where I found it actually at first I wanted to dump the screen shot of me browsing your data. However after seeing your e-mail I decided not to because I could accidentally show more doxxing info.
Want me to send this to your e-mail? With pictures and all. Or do you want me to write this in text here?
BTW don't you use a graphical interface? Is it text only. Also thumbs up for using linux ;-P
Ethan Powell
Feel free to send it to my mail, I'm not keen on getting doxxed
Adam Peterson
I am a brainlet and could do everything he is talking about. It's not hard, not hard at all.
Oliver Smith
ITT edgy tweenagers who think they're l33t h4x0rs because they watched Mr. Robot literally once
Jason Lee
I recommend you delete the mega because others can also see it or have saved it.
Are you interested to stay in contact with me? You sound like a nice guy. Have a nice day.
Liam Stewart
Daily reminder that you must not be brainlet if you can do these things since there are normies who think this is haxxor stuff.
Robert Young
>You are so funny Designated shitting streets
Asher Scott
Jesus fucking christ how retarded are people, there's literally hundreds of wiki articles on this subject, it just takes a teeny bit of inference to get the info you need to pull this off.
Angel Johnson
Excuse me sit I watched hackers one to many times don't even equate me with the r9k Eliot idiot!
I take computers from a local dump here every week and most of the time the hdd still works. What i find the most are: family photos, passwords, documents, games, pretty generic stuff. Porn is super rare and when there is some it`s always stupid normie stuff you find by searching "naked womens" on google
Jordan Young
Thank you for this info. Where do I get into hunting for these computers? What is the best place to get into this hobby?
Mason Baker
Did you get my e-mail? Or do I need to send it one more time? To you?
Austin Gomez
Check you mail
Leo Carter
Not even lying here A friend of mine used to place all his personal files on the trash bin. His document/music/pictures folders was always empty. When I asked why he said it was more secure ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Also met a guy who used his computer for 5 years with files just on his desktop, without a folder structure and with multiple copies of files It took me 2 days to organize it in order to format his machine people are fucking crazy
Matthew Hall
what the fuck happened to Jow Forums? First of all, encryption is done by default for all major companies. Second, encryption for any computer made in the last 10 years has no performance hit due to AES-NI (CPU acceleration). Is intel full of “paranoids” for including this? It’s standard security practice, even the NSA security guidelines for citizens states to use full disk encryption. Encryption could only ever help you, never hurt. That’s like calling someone a schizo for getting a flu shot. I seriously can’t believe this board has fallen this far, where did it all go wrong?
Austin Rodriguez
>Also met a guy who used his computer for 5 years with files just on his desktop, without a folder structure and with multiple copies of files this is the worst thing
>Also met a guy who used his computer for 5 years with files just on his desktop Depends how many files.
Remember they will go off screen if there are to many on windows.
>His document/music/pictures folders was always empty. Based man. Never use the default windows folders because "My Document" is where every windows application takes a big shit in. Always keep your archive in a different location on the root of a HDD.
Also look on C:\ how many EULA can visual studio shit on C:\ ????
I work a shit-tier computer repair job, so I've gotten to look through tons of people's hard drives. >most customers are older and so just have family pictures/videos, maybe stuff related to work/bills >college-age customers tend to have nothing but coursework, maybe some of the aforementioned pics/vids if they don't just keep the stuff on their phones >millennials and younger gen-x are typically more computer-literate, so they're the ones that have a wealth of downloaded movies, music, porn, etc.
What interests me, though, isn't what people have downloaded but what they've created. I rarely see anyone with files they've actually made, save for college coursework which is just stuff they have to make anyhow. I'm not sure why that is. Maybe the majority of people just don't have that creative spark, or most of the ones that do are savvy enough to keep their computers in shape. Or, what I think is really happening is that most of the creative types simply don't live here; they leave small cities like where I live for a much larger one, where all the good colleges and jobs are. I say this because most of the customers with original work on their computers are either fresh out of highschool or still in it. As for what they've actually created, it's mostly fanart and FL Studio songs. I've seen a few people with Python or Visual Studio on their machines, but it always turned out just to be something for school.
Hunter Wilson
>creative spark >but what they've created This most people are uncreative drones I was one as a child. Only taking what other made or downloading the latest movie or songs.
Nothing is created for most normies. Personally I create rapports or analysis, often simple stuff however it helps. I'm proud of my little creations. And 3D modeling is my hobby however its still creative.
Only rare individuals are creative. What do you create? When did you become creative?
For me its in college and I create >my analysis of small data (my pride and joy) >My scripts that I have written and actually use (proud of it in my own life) >3D modeling (hobby) >Writing down my dreams >Idea writing >photos and recording myself or other stuff. >Drawing (crap drawings and hobby)