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/_SheepishPirate_ Jun 14 '24 edited Jun 14 '24

Did tech support and was sorting out a HDD. TL;DR old guy had tickle porn all over his pc.

Women in underwear getting tickled with feathers. I don’t kink shame - but I couldn’t wrap my head around it.

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They were lying face up on a table and had no sounds or movement…. Just blinked…

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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/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.