When a Oracle Exec crosses over to Canada he goes through typical customs until he gets to his laptop. Having found out that it was his personal machine they decide it needed review…
[...] He asks me how to proceed. I was a bit dumbfounded at that point - what do you mean? “Well, what should I click on to log in”. I tried to explain what the three accounts were- Administrator used to, well, administer the machine. Family - used by, well, my kids to play games. Tkyte - used by, well “me”. He asked me to pick one. So I said let’s use tkyte, I know that one best.
He clicks on it and it asks for a password. He looks surprised and says “it needs a password”. I was like - that is OK, I have it, here you go… Now he is logged in. But - my desktop looks a tad different from most - there is no IE on the desktop, just the recycle bin and a folder called programs - nothing else.
He really doesn’t know what to do now. No special searching software, nothing. He looks at me and says “you know what we are doing here right?”. I said - not really (I knew what we were doing, I read the news and all, but just said “no”). “Well” he says “we are looking for pornography”. Ahh I say… Ok, no problem.
But he is stuck. There is nothing familiar. So he clicks on the start menu and finds “My Pictures”. You know, if I was into that - that is precisely where I would stick all of my porn - right there in “My Pictures”. He goes into it - and sees all of my folders. And al of my pictures, which we looked at. He said “wow, you travel a lot”, I said “yup”. [...]
Wow…. just wow. What if the Operating system hadn’t been windows? Say it had been running linux or MacOSX? The final chuckle about it was a good thing the investigator hadn’t looked in his recycle bin is sad but true. Imagine all the files you’ve deleted over time. The Recycle bin gets full of crap, and that would of confused the poor inspector more.
The replies to the post are pretty funny. Whereone person had gotten similar treatment and his laptop was running solaris, so when asked where all his images where he brought up a command prompt and did a search for *.jpg files. If they are wanting to look for something, perhaps they should have someone who knows what to do… do it.
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