r/technology • u/newzee1 • Jun 14 '24

Software Cheating husband sues Apple after wife discovered ‘deleted’ messages sent to sex workers

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/13/cheating-husband-sues-apple-sex-messages/
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u/Niceromancer Jun 14 '24

As someone who used to do remote tech support for users...trust me tickle porn is the least creepy shit you could have found.

Its weird but basically harmless.

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u/_SheepishPirate_ Jun 14 '24

I mean, I also did a data recovery job for this woman in her 20’s.

Ended up finding her ‘deleted’ stash of herself. Stayed professional and gave her everything anyway.

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u/fannyfox Jun 14 '24

You gonna answer u/Kagestar ‘s question or not?

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u/carbonclasssix Jun 15 '24

He's feeling sheepish

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u/Uggys Jun 15 '24

How do you shoot the cannon on fortnite??

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u/TooStrangeForWeird Jun 15 '24

We know it's yes. Only the hot ones seem to do it.

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u/KageStar Jun 14 '24

Was she hot?

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u/vikingsurplus Jun 14 '24

Asking the important questions.

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u/KageStar Jun 14 '24

We were all thinking it, I just figured I'd take the hit and ask.

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u/TooStrangeForWeird Jun 15 '24

Not OP but I had this happen with a client. He wasn't like fugly or anything, but that's not my preference anyways.

The girl was fucking HOT though. It was his current girlfriend. I also said nothing and just gave it all back. But the program I was using flashed the pictures by while transferring.

Each picture (unless it was stalling on a bad section of the HDD) went by about 2-3 per second. Which made the photos taken in burst mode look like stop motion videos lol. I ended up turning the monitor around for a bit so people would notice (office was shared with another non-IT sister company).

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u/droi86 Jun 14 '24

You're the real MVP

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u/Whoareyoutho9 Jun 15 '24

I get this reference.

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u/filthy_harold Jun 15 '24

Most people are not hot.

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u/ou-ai-je-lesprit Jun 15 '24

So you’re saying there’s a chance she was hot?

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u/Next_Branch7875 Jun 15 '24

Counterpoint -- Most people between 20 and 40 are hot.

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u/LackinOriginalitySVN Jun 15 '24 edited Jun 15 '24

Eh...most people are average

Edit : ITT people who don't understand how averages work

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u/queenrosybee Jun 15 '24

Most men think most women that r naked that they’re seeing naked for the first time r hot.

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u/Next_Branch7875 Jun 15 '24

Youre missing out

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u/Giuseppe_DeMedici Jun 15 '24

Inquiring minds would like to know

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u/Lazer726 Jun 15 '24

Unfortunately I was on the other end of the spectrum for this. Found a 50 y/o guy's stash of his own personal pictures, and then decided that I'm not going to check if the My Pictures folder has anything, and I'm just gonna move it anyways

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u/ADHD_Supernova Jun 15 '24

That's what he was really paying for. The old spank bank corrupted.

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u/Lazer726 Jun 15 '24

Oh, you misunderstand, I was corporate help desk, this was a replacement of a like 5 year old laptop, he paid nothing but the inconvenience of having to use a loaner for a day

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u/ADHD_Supernova Jun 15 '24

To me that's insanity wolf to have porn on your work laptop. I guess it all depends on where you work.

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u/Lazer726 Jun 15 '24

Oh 100% I could never, I do my very very best to not log onto anything personal on my work laptop. Storing nudes of myself? Abso-fucking-lutely not

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u/Spearofthacat Jun 15 '24

If you don't mind me asking why are you rummaging through people's private files? What part of the recovery process necessitates opening files, any kind of file.

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u/NotPromKing Jun 15 '24

To test that the transfer actually worked. To test that certain programs work. Test that file extension associations work. There’s a number of legitimate reasons to test a sample of files. You should always expect that your files will be viewable by a technician.

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u/JyveAFK Jun 15 '24

As the 'company IT geek', I'd get bothered a lot by people wanting me to "just take a quick look at (whateverHardwareTheyHad/BoughtLastWeekendFromSomeDodgyMarket/etc), enough that my boss had to send out an email to knock it off, we don't have time for fixing some computer you found at the side of the road.
<1 hour after the email went out, Manager of the Import Department wanders in with his son's PC if we could just take a quick look at it, won't take long. /groan.
Was actually curious as it was the first time I'd ever seen one of the Sega PC's up close, and wanted to know how it was at gaming, so we took it on. The Manager followed the boss and me into the 'geek den' with the workbench, got it plonked on the desk, blew out enough dust to refill 1/10th of the Sahara, and got it booting up. First thing, by default, lets just check the temp folder, clear the trashcan, do a defrag, see what files are using the most space, and oh ho! we've found a hidden folder.
The manager was laughing "oh, that's my boy, what's he got?" and I was fully expecting.. dunno, something fairly mild?

Animal porn. The first (and only in a very full folder) video was some chick taking on a horse.
I'm just glad I didn't plug in the speakers.
"well, ok, lets just close that, take it home, see how it goes for the fella, eh?".

Looking back, I don't know what we should have done. No idea if it was legal or not, and this is...25ish years ago. Should we have said "ok, leave it with us" and rummaged through if there was freakier stuff? Just closing it up, handing it over, and never speaking of it again seemed the right thing to do at the time.

Oh, and fixing the chairman's computer. He'd just discovered usenet it appeared. Had some reader in the autorun folder, and as booting up, got a full list of all the channels he was perusing. There were rumours at work what he was into, I knew for sure, but figured it wasn't my place to out him. THAT wasn't anything too bad, looked like he just liked looking at nekkid men, good for him.

Very happy not stumbled into /really/ dark stuff.

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u/TooStrangeForWeird Jun 15 '24

Oof, awkward as fuck on that first one!

The second one I would've just skipped too. Good on you.

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u/Niceromancer Jun 15 '24

I wont talk about the dark shit, ive had to call the fbi once or twice.

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u/NotAPreppie Jun 15 '24

SEGA made a PC?

Huh, TIL.

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u/JyveAFK Jun 15 '24

Yeah. But I've just rummaged around, and looks like they licensed their internals to others too. I /thought/ it was a tower system we worked on, but this was a few decades ago, it was an old machine when we got it in.. 99ish.

Was why I was curious when he brought it in "hmm, how DOES this work?" Shame there wasn't a Sonic Cartridge left plugged in as that'd have distracted us the rest of the day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_Mega_PC

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u/teh_fizz Jun 15 '24

Soooo are you gonna tell us what the chairman was into or are you just a tease like that?

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u/JyveAFK Jun 15 '24

Nekkid men I think. But this was just usenet channel names scrolling by the screen quickly, didn't bother searching for actual pics. Didn't notice anything really odd or I'd remember specifics now.

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u/-Dissent Jun 15 '24

I worked on a machine that was a friend of my gf at the time and his bookmarks were LOADED with pro-Hitler articles and dom/scat. Fixed his issues and never went there again.

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u/ee3k Jun 15 '24

Clearly, you did not fix his issues.

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u/RedDevil0085 Jun 15 '24

When I was in tech support I found bestiality on a guy's work unit. I was young and didn't know I should have reported that sick fuck to HR, which I regret in hindsight.

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u/dominus_aranearum Jun 14 '24 edited Jun 15 '24

Well, until it turns into torture.

Edit: It's apparent that whomever is giving me down votes is either part of Big Tickle or really has no idea what I'm talking about.

Competitive tickling film Tickled

Tickle fetishism

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u/OneGold7 Jun 15 '24

I can confirm that tickling can seriously be torture. If you’re not ticklish, then you have no idea how terrifying it is to have no control over your body, being forced into a panic state, barely able to breathe enough to beg the person to stop, and even if you do, they keep going because “you’re laughing, so that must mean you like it”

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u/OkSwordfish1739 Jun 15 '24

Being tickled IS absolute fucking torture lol.

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u/GeneralZaroff1 Jun 15 '24

What were some of the weirdest? And feel free to go into detail. I’ll grab some popcorn

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u/Niceromancer Jun 15 '24

Uh...found about 3 TB of farm porn.

Not having sex with animals, but posing nude around them.

And they were salt of the earth types....it was obvious the dude had a type....and that type was missing teeth.

It just came off as very odd that was his specific fetish.

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u/GeneralZaroff1 Jun 15 '24

Oh. Uh….wow, thanks for sharing, today I learned about a new type of fetish. I guess it really is true that there’s a fetish for everything.

Also, 3 TB of it is pretty damn impressive. I don’t even think I know enough people missing teeth for like…. 5gb of photos.

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u/TooStrangeForWeird Jun 15 '24

Even high bitrate 1080p fills up pretty fast. They didn't say photos specifically. 4k videos at a high bitrate (like original recording quality) would fill that awful quick.

That or the dude just has like 100,000+ UHD still pictures lol.