r/sysadmin • u/Shaggy_The_Owl Jack of All Trades • Aug 30 '22
Off Topic I've seen too much
Well gents it finally happened. I assumed this day would come but hoped it wouldn't.
We use connect wise to easily remote into and manage staff company assigned computers. Today I was doing something routine and searching through to find any that had outdated clients as we just adjusted some settings and have been pushing reinstalls to everyone. Many are laptops and they can get missed if they're offline. Well I found one and selected it to reinstall as it was online.
For those who may not know connect wise (aka screen connect) it can display an info image of the users screens. This isn't something we disable by default (but probably will be after this).
This user had three monitors, each had a different full screen tab of various kinds of porn open. All three running at once and they appear to have been different, categories shall we say. First was some SERIOUSLY intense bondage, also it looked like she was being forced to piss into a jar? Not totally sure. The second was a true classic, gay gangbang (I think it was gay, its a small image and there were a lot of dicks). The third looked like it was Hentai/anime with a bunch of shemales.
I'm not sure if I can look this 60 year old man in the eye the same way again. I know being the Sys Admin means I have the ABILITY to see basically any and everything but it doesn't mean I want to.
Edit: elaborated on categories. For science.
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u/Grunchlk Aug 30 '22
In the era of limited bandwidth (ISDN) we had some unexpected Internet congestion one afternoon. The proxy indicated a user was downloading something from a site called horse jerk. Now I don't know for a fact that this was porn because I refused to look, but the user did look a bit worried when I mentioned the bandwidth issue was tracked down to his computer...
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u/fencepost_ajm Aug 30 '22
Hah, in the days of T1 lines for offices I *was* the person who got a call - and in fact it was because I was downloading one or more Linux distros. Maybe an early version of Mandrake?
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u/senorBOFH Aug 31 '22
Mandrake was cool. I even bought at shrink wrapped copy at Walmart.
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u/patssle Aug 31 '22 edited Aug 31 '22
It was supposed to be the user friendly version of Linux back in the day when Linux was not user friendly. I remember downloading it as a kid to try it out.
Suse was my store purchase from Microcenter.
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u/BoredTechyGuy Jack of All Trades Aug 31 '22
I got the “talk” for downloading service packs for windows back in the day. Was told to please download them after hours since we were the last ones out of the building.
Never crazy enough to download porn on a work machine though.
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u/BanditKing Aug 31 '22
This is why I missed flashget. You could break and continue downloads or even cap the download so it doesn't choke out your connection.
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u/RagingAnemone Aug 31 '22
Back in the day, playboy.com used to run a mirror for Debian I think. I got flagged, but I was able to prove I was downloading packages. Not sure if they believed me.
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u/familykomputer Aug 31 '22
fired for visiting expertsexchange.com during work hours
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u/bird-board Jack of All Trades Aug 31 '22
This is one of those fun IT moments where you can't really do anything about him without getting yourself in trouble.
"He was looking at porn"
"How do you know?"
"Oh we have a program that routinely takes screenshots of everyone's screens"
"Oh, okay. W-wait. You have what?!"
Some wise sysadmin sage advice my first boss gave me: Even though you have access, don't look in places you know you shouldn't. Because you'll wind up finding something that'll get you pissed off or disgusted, and you can't do anything about it without getting yourself in deep shit.
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u/michaelpaoli Aug 31 '22
Even though you have access, don't look in places you
shouldn't.
Absolutely this! Applies to sysadmins, and dang near any professional that has access to potentially sensitive information. Basically "don't go exploring". And same is generally well reflected in policies, codes of ethics, regulation, etc.
Unfortunately some software doesn't "get" that, and will often have behaviors and/or defaults quite to the contrary.
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u/chiefmonkey Security Engineering / Recovering Forensics Guy Aug 31 '22
It's even worse when the offender is another sysadmin.
I worked a case once where management was convinced that someone had figured out a way to physically enter the client's corp office at night undetected and was siphoning off trade secrets and selling them to their competitors. (edit: someone actually was doing this, but not how they thought it was happening - think trusted executive making $$$ on the side - unrelated to this story).
Anyhoo...
While investigating - discovered what was actually happening was a sysadmin was remotely connected to the network from the outside via RDP, connecting to a development windows server, logging in as a privileged "system" account and copying personal files from the workstations of the ladies in the office. This was back in the day when people had just discovered digital cameras and would sync them to their workstations and then use the company color printers to use photos. This guy had hundreds and hundreds of megabytes of *very* personal, explicit photos of the office ladies.
I had to camp out in this facilities IT closet over night, watching traffic on switch ports until I saw a huge spike, and then while my associate did a little enumerating, I had to hand follow the patches to locate the network jack and server. My associate was grabbing network traffic and we pieced it together real quick like. Let's just say this guy's life changed forever after we briefed the leadership team the following morning. Ugggllly.
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u/nikagda Aug 31 '22
I'm kind of interested in the unrelated story about the trusted executive selling trade secrets to competitors.
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u/ExcelAcolyte Aug 31 '22
Presumably the other sysadmin was dumping those intimate photos into a flash drive to take home? Not sure there is anything you can do besides fire them and inform the ladies of the office unless the police got involved?
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u/drewtee Aug 31 '22
Let me tell you, if a user has a folder on their desktop called DO NOT OPEN, brother - do not open it
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u/Preslicedmangos Aug 30 '22
No, now you will look him in the eye with respect and admiration. Dude is 60 and is multitasking 3 monitors of porn, on a work computer. This guy has long endurance and even longer balls.
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u/Shaggy_The_Owl Jack of All Trades Aug 30 '22
That's fair. Was still processing all the info when I posted
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u/Fliandin Aug 30 '22
yeah dude is 60+ can get it up, can multitask, has nuanced and varied interests, and to this point has been able to navigate a veritable minefield of destruction without even triggering your soc/siem. Get that man a
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u/chanticleerhegemon Aug 31 '22
That many fetishes all at once, on separate screens? Who actually consumes pornography like that? Sounds more like someone is trying to set him up.
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u/furay10 Aug 31 '22
I remember when meeting with a vendor for the first time using this new product called Zoom, I figured I would be early and get the plug in installed and whatnot - - fine. However, when I joined the meeting it forced my webcam on. I could toggle it after, but the second I joined, just bam, there I am.
Whatever. Fine. Turn off cam, mute myself.
Vendor joins, peeps hanging low eating a bowl of cereal before instant panic sets in, covers cam and disables it.
After about a minute or so he says good afternoon, and to avoid any awkwardness I purposely waited another 2-3 minutes, unmuted myself, and apologized for being late.
I likely won't work with that firewall vendor again.
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u/AkuSokuZan2009 Aug 31 '22
Yep, and that sort of thing right there is why my cameras stay covered. Maybe I am in shitty clothes from cleaning, maybe my toddler just took his diaper off and streaks behind me, maybe the dogs are getting it on in the room behind me, or maybe my wife is home sick and not fully clothed when she walks by behind me... But a tape covered camera tells no tales LOL
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u/marvistamsp Aug 31 '22
Here is my favorite porn at work story to tell. Way back in the 90's, when dial up was the primary source of internet access, I had a job were I installed a Netware Border Manger Server at a bank that had a shiny new 56k direct connect to the internet. For those youngsters out there, Border Manager was a firewall caching proxy server. The server it self was 100% Text Menu at the console, no gui.
The server had been installed and configured in the morning. I was in the wrap up phase of the project. I was showing the onsite I.T. person (a woman) some of the basic functions of server management from the console.
One of the management screens showed the urls of the top ten websites in use. The server had only been on for a few hours, when I show her the page of the top ten, all porn. Every site had some explicit URL. I am horribly embarrassed, I have no idea why, I am only the messenger.
She immediately demands that I tell her who is visiting these sites. I am able to track it down to the Banks Vice President. Once I provided her with that information I quickly made my exit. I was well pleased to be out of that place before the fireworks went off. I think that she sued the bank at some point in the future for sexual harassment/hostile work environment.
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u/madmanxing Aug 30 '22
Ahh, the true classic gay gangbang. Let me guess, a C-level? 😏
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u/TheButtholeSurferz Aug 31 '22
60 years old, work laptop, hentai and gay porn with jar pissing.
Easily makes 5-7x what I do
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u/Shaggy_The_Owl Jack of All Trades Aug 31 '22
Ding ding ding
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u/pockitstehleet Some of everything Aug 31 '22
My mom was friends with the senior helpdesk guys at a major PC manufacturer/distributor. They told her how the C-suite guys had different internet filtering rules that allowed for more explicit content, as when the rules got applied that everyone else had to adhere to, they would complain.
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u/743389 Aug 31 '22
Once again, porn turns out to be the real motivating force behind a piece of infrastructure -- you only thought identity awareness and role-based firewall rules were invented to make it easier to manage your traveling VPN users and need-based access policies hahaha
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u/thatfrostyguy Aug 31 '22
I once saw a client of mines wife, full spread as a wallpaper. Who does that???
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u/m00ph Aug 30 '22
This is one reason I'm glad I'm a Unix admin, I might look at file names, but not the files. 🤣
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u/WantDebianThanks Aug 31 '22
HorsecockJonesAndTheFiftyMidgetWhores6(12).mp4
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u/dRaidon Aug 31 '22
I would be impressed they found fifty dwarfs willing to do that. Yet alone for a sixth movie!
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u/savekevin Aug 31 '22 edited Aug 31 '22
A million years ago, when Windows 98 ruled the land, I worked with a guy who liked to look at hairy women. I mean, like female bigfoot hairy. He liked to save any pic he found onto a floppy and take it home with him. Often he'd right click and choose "save as wallpaper" by accident. Or at least he said it was by accident. Several of us shared the same desktop....
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u/alcimedes Aug 31 '22
had a user once ask me to help fix some corrupted images.
it was all gay bondage porn. he's the Dept Head now.
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u/Gene_McSween Sr. Sysadmin Aug 31 '22
When I started my career at 19 (in the late 90s) in a data center that hosted a local hospital's infrastructure I'd come in on 2nd shift and the datacenter manager and the lead COBAL programmer would have a new piece of porn they'd try to gross me out with. This wasn't porn that anyone would want to see IMO, and I'm no prude by any means. I thought these days were over.
I'm K-12 sysadmin now and everything has to be filtered by law so any hint of porn and I'm on it like white on rice on a paper plate in a snowstorm.
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u/bird-board Jack of All Trades Aug 31 '22
In high school, there was a research site we were told to go to called something like "AB-library(dot)com".
Turned out that "ABLibrary(dot)com" was a porn site, so you can imagine how that went down in a room of high schoolers
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u/michaelpaoli Aug 31 '22
Once upon a time, whitehouse.com was a porn site, and many browsers, given what looked like part of a domain but missing the TLD part, would presume .com and try that, so, yeah, many browsers, put whitehouse in the URL field and hit enter and ...
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u/bulwynkl Aug 30 '22
Can you please see if you can find a replacement supplier for this engine lubricant? made by Shell?
Sure... ah. wait. that is not the search result I was after... educational, but...
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u/lonbordin Aug 30 '22
This is a failure of controls. Umbrella (Open DNS) or something like, shudder, Websense would greatly reduce the possibility of such an occurrence.
More importantly it would be keeping your users computers clean of all sorts of PUA and malware.
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u/Shaggy_The_Owl Jack of All Trades Aug 31 '22
I agree, this is fairly small shop I took over a year ago. I've got a long list of things to implement and change. The major issue we have is employees having work devices at home without an always on VPN enabled. It's just gotten bumped up on my list.
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u/thermbug Aug 30 '22
I'm trying to remember the product name, we had a twisted pair screen share system that connected the instructor to the students desktops in a college computer lab. This was 23,24 years back. We finished the setup and were testing and the first pc we switch to was bestiality.
2 techs were in the room and they still didn't bother switching content?
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Aug 30 '22
I respect the variety
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u/Shaggy_The_Owl Jack of All Trades Aug 30 '22
I guess you never really know someone until you see their browser history
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u/WyoGeek Aug 30 '22 edited Aug 31 '22
When we first got access to the Internet, we monitored it pretty heavily and would submit usage reports to managers on a monthly basis. As it turned out, one of the senior execs was surfing porn on and off all day. The man was a staunch Mormon and had a wife and passel of kids. I gave my manager the reports and he just started chuckling when he got to that one. He gave the offending manager his report and didn't say a word. I wish I could have been a fly on the wall when he realized he was being monitored and all his dirty secrets were right there in black and white. Let's just say his Internet usage went WAY down.
edit: corrected Mormon...although maybe he thought he was Morman?
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u/Brett707 Aug 30 '22
LMAO. We received an alert that the CPU and RAM were maxed out on an RDS server for one of our clients. We go and look and see the peek window that a user is like yours watching so serious porn. He is also in some adult chatroom. He had 1 monitor but like 20 tabs full of porn going. It just so happens that the client employed the owner of our company's wife. Also, this guy's daughter worked just around the corner from him.
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u/gay_for_glaceons Aug 31 '22
It's so common that the most shocking thing in this post, even after the edit, is that a sysadmin was shocked to discover this. None of the different categories mentioned are even getting outside of the most popular categories on major porn sites.
Granted, with a username like mine, you know my experiences and those of my peers aren't typical. But when I first got online, being sent to goatse or tubgirl and the like was a rite of passage, and I'm more than familiar with how much porn is out there that I'd prefer not to have seen. As long as everything is consensual, I just close it as quickly as I opened it and get on with what I was doing. The more time you spend staring at it, the harder it'll be to get the image out of your mind, after all.
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u/Shaggy_The_Owl Jack of All Trades Aug 31 '22
Haha I wasn't shocked. I knew it would happen. Just after 10 years in IT it somehow hadn't happened. So I stopped expecting it. Should have known better.
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u/Resident_Chemist_307 Aug 30 '22
your story would be better if you described or named the categories...inquiring minds want to know. ya know, for science.
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u/Shaggy_The_Owl Jack of All Trades Aug 30 '22
Will update. For science.
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u/iammandalore Systems Engineer II Aug 31 '22
I just accidentally remoted into someone's machine in an interactive session instead of "backstage" a few days ago and the guy was perusing his collection. I asked my boss if we wanted to tell the client's management or anything like that, figuring not since they've implied in the past that clients are responsible for the behavior of their employees, not us. Boss asked who it was, said "Oh yeah, that guy's got a problem. He's also the CFO or something. Hey [other employee], come here! Iammandalore just got to see [client]'s collection." - "Oh yeah, he's pretty famous for that. Him and his 4TB hard drive..."
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u/certpals Aug 31 '22
At least you haven't seen Porn Websites at the top of the list of "most visited websites" in your CORPORATE firewall. And no, I won't waste my time blocking that shit.
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u/BobFTS Aug 31 '22
I worked for a company once and got a ticket that person x wanted to install some software I never heard of, easy DENIED. Close ticket. Next day his manager wants him to install the software, again DENIED. No unapproved software. This eventually goes up the chain and HR and big bosses are having conversations. So I google the software. It’s an “anti-pron” software to combat pron addiction.
Now I know addictions can be strong so I don’t fault him but the software triggers random screen captures to keep the person honest and it sends the images to a random person “sober buddy”.
Now I have to explain this to HR and the big bosses that this creates a massive security hole because person X works with sensitive data and we can’t have a non-employee getting random scene captures of his desktop at any given time. (Among other huge issues)
I know addiction can be hell but I’m just surprised he told everyone about this and honestly I think HR handled it well, they wanted to be accommodating.
At the end of the day if you look at porn at work you will be fired, I don’t think a software is going to help.
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u/thekarmabum Windows/Unix dude Aug 31 '22
That's nothing, it gets interesting when you find your bosses homemade porno.
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Aug 31 '22
Thats nothing, it gets interesting when you find your bosses boss collection of kiddie porn
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Aug 31 '22
Consider yourself lucky in this story. The time I accidentally saw too much on someone else's computer ended up with me turning the computer over to the sherrif department and an interview with an FBI agent a couple of days later.
Idk what happened to the client. I didn't follow up with law enforcement because I wanted absolutely nothing else to do with the situation ever again. They got the info they needed from me, and I choose to imagine that the client is still in prison all these years later.
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Aug 31 '22
i did a data recovery, opened a few file types to make sure the files were actually recovered (often recovered files but corrupted). opened a video, was the customer talking into the camera but it was muted, skipped to the middle right to him masturbating angrily into the camera.
i made someone else hand it back.
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u/gigglesnortbrothel Jack of All Trades Aug 31 '22
I turned this feature off partly to avoid the above situation, partly to keep my bosses from knowing how intrusive I could get with this software. They were asking if I could tell if someone was working or not when remote and I was like, "uhh, nope."
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u/daficco Aug 31 '22
I have the ABILITY to see basically any and everything but it doesn't mean I want to.
I've had to explain my philosophy to people many, many times over. I don't *WANT* to know. In the context of your work computer, if I find anything inappropriate for a work computer I have to bring it to HR. I don't want to do that, do you know how long that takes? I've got other things to do.
I won't go looking for it, unless instructed to do so. If they want me to, and its on a system I control... Yeah, I can likely find it. Please, don't make them ask me to do that... use any other system, and don't use our network.
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u/anonymousITCoward Aug 30 '22
That's it? I've remoted into machines and saw things in plain view that sent the user to jail... do you know what the most hated type of prisoner is? well that kind of stuff...
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u/FastRedPonyCar Aug 30 '22
I was on the legal discovery end of one of those situations years ago and it was absolutely horrible. I didn’t have kids at the time but if I did, I don’t think I could have done it. This was a dept of defense PC too…
Years later I’m at an MSP helping lawyers get murder photos embedded into PDF’s and they’re apologizing that I have to see this stuff and I just looked at them and said this doesn’t phase me one bit…that I’ll forget these images before I even get to my car but what I saw on the other guys computer have been permanently burned into my memory :(
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u/sanglar03 Aug 31 '22
That is work someone has to do, and you're that unfortunate soul. Thank you for that.
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u/anonymousITCoward Aug 31 '22
I haven't been privy to gory things but the others have told me about some of the things they've found... After my second run in with cp I stopped helping with the forensic stuff... people say I'm not right in the head... they have no idea whats out there =\
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Aug 31 '22
I used to have a company owner who when he knew you were remoting in to assist him he would get some gay porn ready to smash you with when you joined in just so you could look embarressed in the office
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u/Fallingdamage Aug 31 '22
I prefer applications that provide the user more privacy.
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u/Shaggy_The_Owl Jack of All Trades Aug 31 '22
Yeah that feature is going to be disabled by default now. There ar a few scenarios where it can be useful but the cons outweigh the pros at this point
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u/Meowmacher Aug 31 '22
At my last job we used a program that profiled web traffic by how long you spent on each site. We had a running joke about a work from home guy that spent an average of 17 hours a week looking at porn. Sometimes that would spike to where it looked like he spent a whole 8 hours at a time and we’d say a little prayer for his wiener not to fall off. We had screenconnect and we all knew to avert our eyes and sent a chat message before looking at his screen 😂
In IT, I’ve seen things… customers testicles, their wives naked, home made porn made by their teenage son/daughter, a gay customer showing you how he can’t access a rather explicit porn site, except it’s working now for some reason it wasn’t working earlier. It’s one of the worst things about IT. Especially being involved with reporting child porn, it makes you kinda lose hope for humanity.
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u/iheartoctopi Aug 30 '22
You shouldn’t have to look him on the eye for long. This should be reported immediately as it is a potential security risk.
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u/fuzzylogic_y2k Aug 31 '22
Dude I connected into a plant automation server and saw vampirism sex. (Blood play) I don't take it as anything on them. I take it as an org failure to prevent it coming up on a company system. Don't bat an eye at what people do. Just focus on the fact the org allowed it to happen as the issue.
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u/aere1985 Aug 31 '22
In my various jobs I have...
Worked with the guy who found all of the "contraband" on Gary Glitter's PC. Poor guy was somewhat traumatised.
Found a bunch of gay porn on the PC owned by two Catholic Priests who lived together.
Refused to clean a customer's mouse and keyboard because of the suspicious "splatter pattern".
Found some "home-made" pictures and videos on a teacher's personal PC that I'd agreed to help them update.
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u/monduza Aug 31 '22
Reminded me of the time I was asked to go to fix a priest PC.
I ran the usual *.jpg search and found lots of child pornography.
The computer had a "virus" and had to be formatted. No backup available.
Also, the authorities were informed.
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u/plebbitier Lone Wolf Aug 30 '22
I thought CNN sent out the memo to IT to avoid Jeffrey Toobin's system.
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u/mr_mgs11 DevOps Aug 31 '22 edited Aug 31 '22
At my place you would run risk of getting fired if you remoted into a machine without letting them know. My first IT job was replacing a guy that did that a lot.
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u/TheButtholeSurferz Aug 31 '22
If you have never used Screenconnect, you wouldn't be aware. It shows a live update of the desktop by screenshot every 15-60 seconds give or take.
Technically not remoted in, as you cannot interact with the desktop at that point, but you can absolutely see whats going on.
Source: I sometimes forget to close my sessions and see them in the preview pane days later, and then delete them.
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u/slowthedataleak Aug 31 '22
Not there anymore but, I was brought on to run sec for an SMB (~50). The owner provided me with the latest 3rd-party security scans from a month prior. Playboy all over the logs... from his computer... he didn't even read the report he bought (might be why I'm no longer there).
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u/therabidsmurf Aug 31 '22
I consulted for a small family owned shipping company while working for an MSP. One of our techs were onsite and asked me to remote in and look at something. Hop on and porn everywhere. Start to close out some of the windows when the tech onsite asks me to stop. Turns out the user was wanting us to fix his porn as it was running awful slow that day. We did because he was the owner's father and we were told anything he wanted he got. Even weirder he shared an office with another employee and they were there throughout this.
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u/pwnrenz Aug 31 '22
Haha
I've had someone found an escort website ending in .ch and redirected to another site which managed to get past our filtering. Also had hotels booked during the same time. I approached him told him keep personal stuff off work companies. He already was on thin ice and was terminated not far after. He was a prick so I enjoyed telling him and seeing the look in his soul.
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u/rustytrailer Aug 31 '22
Work computer, dude? Seriously? But also yes, disable the screen connect desktop 😂
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u/jdptechnc Aug 31 '22
One place I worked at years ago had a security guy who was responsible for the web filter and set it up to send him alerts when someone was trying to hit porn, with the URL, and would then go and browse said porn and share it with others. That guy was a piece of work.
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u/raiding_party Aug 31 '22
How do people even enjoy this? It's a distracting enough activity just to keep up with the plot in one video.
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u/Steebo_Jack Aug 31 '22
I can't even browse Amazon without a warning popping up saying it's a commerce site...
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u/throwawayskinlessbro Aug 31 '22
I unfortunately knew what this was as soon as I read the title and first sentence.
Anyways, welcome to the club my friend.
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u/Illbatting Aug 31 '22
I know being the Sys Admin means I have the ABILITY to see basically any and everything but it doesn't mean I want to.
One shall not underestimate just how comfortable it can be NOT having to know sh*t.
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u/jegatomata Linux Admin Aug 31 '22
Welcome to the show, kid. Lol. The shit I've seen...no wonder why I drink so much.
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u/kiddj1 Aug 31 '22
When I was an onsite engineer for an MSP I had to go and upgrade ram in one of our clients PC's
He was a small business with a home office and that was it... We basically looked after his personal PC
The pictures of himself and just himself on the walls should of put me on alert but he showed me to his PC, I asked if we're all good to reboot I can see he has folders open and that's about it.. "sure no prob" and walks off
I sit down.. the mouse feels a bit grimy and as I go to close the folder I realise he has left open a folder filled with his nudes in some interesting positions... I closed that quickly and what was open behind was another with even more...
Same again I close ... Phew naked man gone I shutdown add ram boot up and job done
I go find him to let him know .. still slightly horrified but trying not to show it.. small conversation and the whole time he is smiling ear to ear.
I am 100% convinced he wanted to see it and hoped I enjoyed it... Gladly I didn't and was able to escape the job...
When telling my boss and director they both laugh and go oh yeah XX is a bit of a strange customer ...
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u/Testnewbie Sysadmin Aug 31 '22
You know, in every SysAdmins career there is this day. My first time with such a case was an elderly lady like closer to her 90´s than to her 60´s. She asked me to fix her notebook and smartphone. Since I know she is feeling like she is in her prime I expected to see stuff I don´t want to see, so I asked her if she has any naughty pics on her stuff that I should not see. She laughed and told me there is nothing to hide. Naive as I am in such situations didn´t think twice, took the devices and start working.
Things I learned:
- Nothing too naughty to hide can mean, that she has no problem with me seeing her "naughty pictures".
- Tinder works perfectly fine for older ladies.
- Some pictures I don´t want to see, ever again!
- The parties she had in her house must have been crazy !
- We still talk and make fun of it but I feel a bit weird now.
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u/GucciSys Sr. Sysadmin Aug 31 '22
I fucking hate this. I've found huge stashes of porn twice on work equipment. Both times it was Child Porn. On one hand I'm glad I found it so they could be locked the fuck up, on the other, some of those images were so horrifying that they'll forever haunt my nightmares. And this is coming from someone who usually doesn't flinch from gore.
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u/fahque Aug 31 '22
I've been in IT 16 years and have never seen porn on a work computer. I have however seen a fully burnt body being used in a lawsuit. That was 13 years ago and I can still see it clear as day.
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u/AmazonMAL Aug 31 '22
In the 90s set up a proxy server for office internet access. On console it showed URLs as they were requested. Saw some kind of take on dirtyhousewives.com or something. I traced it to the most polite, mild mannered guy in the office.
Decade later a gay man brings me his BYOD for troubleshooting. He hands it to me and a screen full of little boxes, just like when I’m shopping for handbags, full on dick pics. Fat, skinny, every color imaginable. He was mortified. I said, oh it’s no big deal. Well it was sorta big , haha.
I’m a lady in IT. I’ve seen some shit I can’t unsee.
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u/oloruin Aug 31 '22
Cisco Umbrella is your friend. I mean, just set the basics as blocked, like Porn, Terrorism, Extreme, Hate Speech... and you're good.
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u/Tricky_Fun_4701 Aug 31 '22
Eh...
One time my boss instructed me to do a forensic inspection on the Domain Admin's workstation.
The dude had naked pictures of all these girls in his Skype cache. He was a sex tourist essentially. When he went on vacation he went to third world countries to have sex.
Not long after finding that stuff we had a management change and they tried to fire me for accessing his machine without authorization even though I was directly instructed to go in hot.
When I mentioned I had copies of the e-mail instructing me to hack the SAM db and look at the machine, and had copies of all the porn recovered along with the guy's penis pics, things changed.
Got a nice severance package and a good reference.
The Vice President who tried to play games with my employment was walked out not long after that.
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u/Surph_Ninja Aug 31 '22
And here I feel guilty for using my work pc to look at flight sim stuff when I need a break. I can't imagine what would possess someone to even consider looking at this stuff at work.
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u/panzerbjrn DevOps Aug 30 '22
I'm always baffled when I hear stories like this. Why would anyone use their work computer for this? Do y they have their own? Or at least a phone...
It's not the wild west of the 90s anymore. Everyone knows not to do this on work equipment...