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Oops. Sold a laptop on eBay and forgot to delete everything. Am I fucked?

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Deleted member 22576

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Hopefully a normal person bought it, and will be annoyed you forgot to wipe and just wipe it themselves after the first boot.


DR FEEL GOOD my diagnosis is don't worry about it.
 

Ephemeris

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Moundir&Tony>you said:
Exactly ...

She was quite shaken when she came back home and told me that . It actually made me laugh more than anything else , but I know I'll never look at him the same way .
damn. That's the awkward of the forever right there.
 
As others have said, try to call and get the package back. Have you already done this?

When was the last time you cleared the cookies on your mac? If not, prepare to change EVERY password you own.

If you have gmail or paypal, sign up for their 2 step authentication. That way even if he has your passwords, he can't log in.
 

Sethtimus Prime

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You have to assume the person who purchased your laptop would mess with your shit given the opportunity. You need to change all your passwords to something unlike your previous password and de-authorize itunes and whatever else you might use on there.

Edit - That is, if you can't get it back.
 

dorkimoe

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Sethtimus Prime said:
You have to assume the person who purchased your laptop would mess with your shit given the opportunity. You need to change all your passwords to something unlike your previous password and de-authorize itunes and whatever else you might use on there.

Edit - That is, if you can't get it back.

This. Id be worried as shit
 

seb

Banned
Dr. Feel Good said:
I actually have no porn on the computer. Why would I waste harddrive space when I can stream from the hundreds of websites online?? Plus what the hell would I care if some rando could look at what I beat off to, it's not like I would ever see the person in real life.

But yeah, more importantly, it's about passwords I guess. But if they are simply saved on certain websites (such as NeoGAF) how could see what my password is when it's asterisked out?
In firefox at least, there's a menu to do just that (display saved passwords). Don't know about safari.
I would definitely change any "critical" passwords.
 
In the future, think about LastPass or something...at least that way you don't have to worry about changing all of your passwords if you forget to format a drive or give away a computer.
 

Tobor

Member
Dr. Feel Good said:
Soo yeah, I just got back from the post office and just shipped off my old Macbook to someone who bought it on eBay. I didn't realize until afterwards that I completely forgot to get rid of everything on the computer before shipping it. I don't think there was any record of credit cards or anything like that, but I feel like I might have left usernames signed in on certain sites and whatnot. Is there anything I can do to fix this, or am I royally fucked? What could this person do with it? I've also got a lot of random papers and stuff I've written through college and stuff too.

GO BACK TO THE POST OFFICE.
 
M_Night said:
Is the porn ticked under hidden files? Or will the buyer discover your files of shame?
Wait, it's not just me who does this? Now I don't feel like as much of a genius.

Also, I would never, ever sell a notebook that I've owned.
 
Dr. Feel Good said:
But yeah, more importantly, it's about passwords I guess. But if they are simply saved on certain websites (such as NeoGAF) how could see what my password is when it's asterisked out?

Very easily. Drag + Drop level of Easy because its a local machine and the asterisked password is in the RAM.
 

Dan Yo

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Moundir&Tony>you said:
Exactly ...

She was quite shaken when she came back home and told me that . It actually made me laugh more than anything else , but I know I'll never look at him the same way .
How did she stumble upon it? Was she trying to find his porn stash? I don't see how someone lets another use their computer without first deleting incriminating evidence. Especially the stuff in plain site.

Also, what kind of horse porn? Girls sucking off horses?
 

UberTag

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Ephemeris said:
be real with us.

There's porn there.

With horses.
Moundir&Tony>you said:
My gf found exactly that while using her father's computer ...
That's still better than finding shemales. I would have rather found horses.
Needless to say that was the last time I did my taxes on Dad's PC.
 

Mattdaddy

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If I received your comp I would probably give a good thorough search for any nudie pics of your girl or action shots. Passwords and financial stuff I would leave alone or delete. I'm only a partially horrible person, not full blown horrible. Just being real.
 

.GqueB.

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God this would suck if that happened to me. I have all the nudes Ive ever gotten from women on my harddrive. Bad news bears.

But seriously, you just killed yourself and your entire family.
 
UberTag said:
That's still better than finding shemales. I would have rather found horses.
Needless to say that was the last time I did my taxes on Dad's PC.

Did you confront him regarding his transexual porn?
 

dude

dude
UberTag said:
That's still better than finding shemales. I would have rather found horses.
Needless to say that was the last time I did my taxes on Dad's PC.
Hmm... Why would shemales be worse than horses? What are your guidelines towards porn ranking?
 

Dan Yo

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dude said:
Hmm... Why would shemales be worse than horses? What are your guidelines towards porn ranking?
Because horse porn is novelty. It's like watching snuff films. Just because you have a sick fascination with the weird stuff doesn't mean you're actually into killing people or into horses.

Shemale porn means that the man who is married to his mother may actually be batting for the other team.
 

Pollux

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Dan Yo said:
Because horse porn is novelty. It's like watching snuff films. Just because you have a sick fascination with the weird stuff doesn't mean you're actually into killing people or into horses.

Shemale porn means that the man who is married to his mother may actually be batting for the other team.


Dude if your fapping to a chick banging a horse thats just as bad/worse than fapping to a CHICK with a dick especially if she's banging another chick.

Shemales baniging chicks is like whole lesbians sex - .5 a chick.
 
I love how Gaf automatically assumes it's the OP's porn folder he/she forgot to delete.

Seriously, change your usernames/passwords on EVERYTHING.
 

Einherjar

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It's extremely easy to mine your saved passwords if they have physical access to your computer. You need to change your passwords.
 

mollipen

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Dan Yo said:
Shemale porn means that the man who is married to his mother may actually be batting for the other team.

Not necessarily.



UberTag said:
That's still better than finding shemales. I would have rather found horses.

So you'd rather somebody want to have sex with animals than with another person. That's great.
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
my guess is that they will get annoyed at all your saved preferences and delete them, or possibly even reinstall windows.
 

Burger

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Isn't Keychain Access (where passwords are kept) pretty secure? You would need an Administrator password to reveal anything?

Also he would not be able to log in, create accounts etc without first knowing your Administrator password?
 
Dr. Feel Good said:
I actually have no porn on the computer. Why would I waste harddrive space when I can stream from the hundreds of websites online?? Plus what the hell would I care if some rando could look at what I beat off to, it's not like I would ever see the person in real life.

But yeah, more importantly, it's about passwords I guess. But if they are simply saved on certain websites (such as NeoGAF) how could see what my password is when it's asterisked out?

Change your passwords. If you logged in your bank site or paypal - or even e-mail - it's worth changing all of them now.

And there do exist programs out there that can find your saved passwords sicne I believe they are saved locally in Windows somewhere (even if asterisk'd out).

It's a pain in the ass, but I'd say missing money is worse than a using 10 min of your time.
 
Mattdaddy said:
If I received your comp I would probably give a good thorough search for any nudie pics of your girl or action shots. Passwords and financial stuff I would leave alone or delete. I'm only a partially horrible person, not full blown horrible. Just being real.
I think this is the real-est response in this thread.
 

MNC

Member
I don't know why GAF is making jokes about a porn folder on it because I'd seriously wouldn't mind such a thing. In fact if I received a laptop with porn I'd be pretty happy.
 
Mattdaddy said:
If I received your comp I would probably give a good thorough search for any nudie pics of your girl or action shots. Passwords and financial stuff I would leave alone or delete. I'm only a partially horrible person, not full blown horrible. Just being real.

This is probably what I would do. The financial stuff could be traced back to me so I wouldn't touch it.
 
br0ken_shad0w said:
Almost all my shit are impossible to find streaming:

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(damn I'm pathetic)

And I thought I had too much. What the hell dude? please tell me that took years to amass
 

mollipen

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I would also take the chance to say I think this is one of a few reasons why you shouldn't store any sensitive materials (bank statements, tax forms, etc.) directly on your machine unless they're securely encrypted. Forget to erase a hard drive, take a computer in for repair, have your computer stolen, a number of different potential situations where something could happen.

I like the idea of keeping everything of that nature on a Flash drive, because then you can keep it in an area totally separate of your computer stuff when not in use, reducing the chance of it being stolen if somebody is just grabbing a handful of equipment. Also, you can then put it together with any other items you have prepared to quickly be grabbed in case of fire or other emergency.

At the least, though, keep important documents on your machine in some sort of encrypted fashion. There's no excuse not to do this on a Mac, because you can quickly and easily create an encrypted disc image than can be mounted or unmounted as needed.

As for web stuff, as others have said, get to changing your passwords ASAP. Even if your browser keeps a session active or password in memory, that'll help protect you.
 

dude

dude
I enjoy both tranny and horse porn, I just don't see the difference. We all watch sick stuff, as long as it's not illegal there's nothing that makes one worse than the other, really.
 
I didn't lose anything because I migrated (aka copied) everything to my new Macbook, it's just that basically everything is still on the old one. Getting the package back is out of the question and now I've just been going through and changing my passwords (which sucks, because I've been using the same password for years).
 

Enco

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Angry Grimace said:
my guess is that they will get annoyed at all your saved preferences and delete them, or possibly even reinstall windows.
Hopefully.

I would change all passwords though. Or, if you use LastPass (if not, do it), change the master password and a few settings so that they can't sign into any of your accounts.
 

DrM

Redmond's Baby
br0ken_shad0w said:
Almost all my shit are impossible to find streaming:

bGNEW.png


(damn I'm pathetic)
you should start Offical NeoGAF "educational movies" streaming service.
 
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