[identity profile] nem0.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] techrecovery
Joining the theme day festivities...

I used to work in a university computer help center. One of our services was taking in customer computers and fixing any issues, installing virus and malware scanners, and running software updates. We had a bench that ran along two walls with several monitors and KVMs so we could work on about a dozen machines at the same time. Problem was, all those monitors faced the lobby space and entrance.

One afternoon, I was swamping out a couple of PCs when a grad student and her child (couldn't have been more than 3 years old) came in to ask a question. I had my back to the bench while we chatted. After a few minutes, the kid went wide-eyed, pointed emphatically at the bench, and shouted, "NAKED PEOPLE!" Sure enough, one of the users had put all his porn JPGs in his My Documents folder and set his screen saver on the random photo option with a delay of 5 minutes.

Shop policy now is to either disable any screensavers or make sure to kill the monitors before leaving the computers unattended.

Typing this up reminded me of a similar story from my own childhood. When I was 3, my family lived about 15 miles out of town on a mountainside, so we had one of those huge satellite dishes in our back yard for TV reception. Some of our relatives were visiting, and my dad thought it would be hilarious to show off the unscrambled porn channels the dish could pick up. The next day, we went on a road trip. Apparently, one of the windows wasn't locked tightly enough, and the house got robbed. They took everything of vaule, including the remote to the satellite dish. We had a spare TV that they didn't snatch, but on hooking it up, Mom discovered that it was still set to the porn channel. And the way the dish was set up, the only way to change the channels was with the (now missing) remote. All I remember is not being able to watch Sesame Street for a week while we waited for the satellite tech to come out and move the dish to a more, uh, appropriate channel.

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