Anyone ever try to invade your PC privacy?

I'm asking because I wrote that post in the other thread about securing a PC from some guys roommate.

Has anyone ever gotten into your computer or otherwise invaded your privacy?

I think my personal machine (I've had my own machine since I was very young) is my personal space. Besides all my music, media, etc and artwork my drive is sprinkled liberally with porn.

My brother is a real asshole sometimes. He's not a horrible person, he just thinks he knows whats best for everyone. Also, he sometimes tries to make fun of me by telling my/his friends it like cartoon porn. (I wouldn't care since I am a pervert, but he does it without provocation.) So, I don't have a complete record of every time he's made it into my PC but when I was much younger and not at all informed about security (think when Win98 was still new) I have a feeling that he went on and deleted my hentai collection. I'm not sure about that one as I have no proof. A few years later when 2000 was popular I had passworded my machine but my brother called me because he was desperate to burn a disc for a friend but his burner was broken and he needed to leave. After much hesitation I decided to be the nice one and gave him the password. For someone in such a hurry he had time to go thought my folders and leave little 'notepad notes.' (Being a 4chan user you can image my porn wasn't exactly conventional either) A few months later my friend was staying at my place while he was moving from another country and I was at work so my friend was sitting and reading. (This is what my friend reported) My brother walks in and when he sees my friend the he gets a little flsutered and says he needs to check a serial number. My brother looks at the side of the monitor and leaves. There is no visible serial on anything on my desk. Anyway, after the incident in which he left notes I really locked down my machine and to my knowledge he has never been able to get on it again.

Is your brother older or younger than yourself?
That time you divulged your password; you should have instead, told him and and his friend to go screw themselves.

with >>1 seeming like a regular 4channer, yourself > other people

A severely resticted guest account is fine too

I don't let people into my computer, no matter what. All my porn is encrypted, too.

TrueCrypt, open source freeware native to windows. Use it, but don't forget to backup your headers.

Please don't call free software freeware.

>>5
GNAA memnership detected ;)

It IS freeware. But not all freeware is open source or free software. (Not all free software is GNAA approved free software either :P)

>>5
Oops, I didn't mean to.

>>4
i shall try this so called "truecrypt"

fail for not knowing how to use a computer

>>8
Be sure to read the manual that comes with the program. You'll be glad you did.

>>2
My brother is quite a few years older than me.
That time I divulged my password I was trying to be nice to my brother. It was his one chance and he screwed up so I'll never tell my password again.

>>10
ya, i had no idea what was going on before i read the manuel a bit. cool program tho. just hope noone deletes the 5 gig file that does "nothing"

>>5
Why? We don't care about using your fucking loaded words. This thing is a freeware whatever RMS' opinion on the topic is. Goddamn GNAA hippies.


I use Filevault on OS X to encrypt my home folder, but my "media" is on an external drive unencrypted (I'm more concerned by the risk of having somebody read my documents than having my porn seen).
The root folder of that media directory is a .dotfile, so it is hidden in the Finder, and since I live alone, this is more than enough a security. I also keep an account that never ever get in contact with anything problematic, if I have to let somebody use my machine in a pinch. I used the same technique on Lunix.
On Windows, you can put your files on another partition and use partition utilities that can hide partitions.

Step 1) Set up encrypted /home with cryptsetup-luks
Step 2) chmod -r 700 ~
Step 3) Profit!