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1226180 No.1226180 [Reply] [Original]

Serious question.

While lurking /b/ you sometimes come across illegal content in thumbnails. Even if you don't click the pictures the illegal content is stored on your hdd and not deleted like cache. How do you get rid of the thumbnails?

>> No.1226184

this is why i no longer lurk /b/

>> No.1226187

>implying is my fault having that illegal pictures in my hd

>> No.1226188

/b/ is lame

>> No.1226191

>>1226187
thumbnails from all the boards are stored on your hdd. whether you intentionally or unintentionally wanted that

>> No.1226194

Don't worry about it; you're never going to get in trouble for that shit. I encrypt my HDD, but that's just because I'm paranoid.

>> No.1226201

>>1226194
how do you encrypt your hdd? I am using windows 7

>> No.1226202

Wouldnt that shit be removed any time you do a clean of the cache?

>> No.1226211

>>1226184
>implying that /sci/ wasn't getting spammed with CP earlier
>>1226194
>implying that you can't get in trouble for this
>http://cbs13.com/local/limewire.child.porn.2.1346842.html

>> No.1226215

>>1226202
yes

>> No.1226222

>>1226215
good

>> No.1226225

Use CCleaner in Gutmann mode. If that doesn't wipe it, nothing short of destroying your hard-drive will. :(

>> No.1226236

4chan is always spammed with that.
would clearing cache be all we need to do to remove it?

>> No.1226238

>>1226202
>>1226236
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_remanence

>> No.1226253

>>1226238
if you clear your cache even only every once in awhile, all of the erasing and overwriting will destroy any chance of recovering what was once there

besides, thumbnails will be stored right along side the actual page in cache so you can prove you weren't necessarily looking for it

>> No.1226260

INFORMATION WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL IN THE UNIVERSE

well maybe not if it go to a black hole

>> No.1226262

>>1226253
>besides, thumbnails will be stored right along side the actual page in cache so you can prove you weren't necessarily looking for it
See here
>>1226211
>http://cbs13.com/local/limewire.child.porn.2.1346842.html

>> No.1226266

>>1226253
does clearing cache clear the thumbnails?

>> No.1226283

>>1226266

nothing is ever truly deleted from your computer, there is ALWAYS a record of it. FACT

>> No.1226288

>>1226262
>The FBI could not comment on this specific case, but said if child pornography is ever downloaded accidentally, the user needs to call authorities immediately. They may confiscate your computer, but it's better than the alternative.
that's fucked up. i can't get my comp confiscated every time i surf /b/.

also, what became of him?

>> No.1226289

>>1226283
What if you throw your computer into a vat of corrosive acid?

>> No.1226295

>>1226288
what do you plan to do then?

>> No.1226301

>>1226283
retard, or troll

guys, chill the fuck out, nothing is every going to happen. by the time something would happen (say, you send an email to the fbi announcing your appropriation of state secrets and intention of nuking DC) your daily computer usage will have long since overwritten anything that was on your hdd

and if that's not enough to soothe your paranoid nerves: download DBAN, go over it over 9000 times, crack open the hdd, melt it in an oven, dump it in the ocean

tl;dr: the fbi is not going to spend (tens of) thousands of dollars on you, you're not worth it

>> No.1226303

Any proof of this so called storing of thumbnails? If not, I call troll.

>> No.1226304

if your using a recent version of firefox you can clear recent history to remove all traces of your /b/ visit, then use a shredder program to randomize your free space just in case you feel like the FBI will come knocking sometime soon.

>> No.1226306

k

>> No.1226308

if the government came to search my house, the porn i have on my computer would be the least of my concerns.

get out and live a little bit, it's fun.

>> No.1226315

>>1226303
it goes in your cache dumbass
>>1226301
this
>>1226262
thumbnails on your cache and a file selected from a limewire search are two different things, will likely be treated differently. besides, the child porn in question was probably a bait by the fbi

>> No.1226325

>>1226303
It's stored in your cache (depending on what browser, you should be able to find it in Tools or something).

When you surf the Internet all the files required to view that webpage are first downloaded to your HDD, then the browser takes those files and creates a webpage.

That's why it is sometimes faster when you revist webpages you've already been to if there is no new information, or flash games load quicker a second time around - it's already stored on your computer.

>> No.1226350

Protip for all you faggots who don't know how to cache - File - Work Offline. Congrats, all this information was stored in your cache

>> No.1226352

Thumbnails dont necessarily go into your Temp. Internet files. And you could always clear that folder out. Although it regularly cleans itself anyways. You won't be able to dig it up after you visit /b/ when there is no cp on the page.

>> No.1226355

ITT morons
Specifically
>>1226301


http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/03/rick-rolled-to-child-porn-youre-a-pedophile-says-fbi
.ars

>> No.1226374

I've never heard of anyone getting in trouble for cp from /b/. Usually CP charges come because you've given them some other reason to investigate you, and they poke around in your comp. You should be fine as long as you don't go out looking for cp like I do.

>> No.1226378

>>1226262

>Matthew White, 22, said he was surfing for pornography two years ago on Limewire -- a fire sharing application that allows users to trade music, movies, games and pictures -- when he discovered that some of the files he had downloaded were images of children.

>Limewire -- a fire sharing application that allows users to trade

>fire sharing

>> No.1226381
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1226381

Everything you view is downloaded onto your computer.

By default, even things you delete aren't usually "deleted" immediately.

There are a number of cleaning tools(http://www.fileshredder.org/)) but I forgot most of their names, ones that actually wipe the area on the disk instead of just disassociating the address.

>> No.1226385

>>1226355
>rick rolled to child porn

yeah, not clicking

>> No.1226386

>>1226385
Ha!

>> No.1226393

>>1226355
hahahaha oh wow

you americans are truly insane

>> No.1226410

>>1226393
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091203/Luring_Charges_091203/20091203?hub=Cana
da

>> No.1226413

>>1226355
this kind of shit makes me paranoid, that guys going to jail because of two cached thumbnails, thats like everytime i go on /b/.

>> No.1226446

>>1226410

salem witch trials: 2010

>> No.1226451

>>1226410
ok, correction, you anglo-saxons are all insane