I am the IT guy in our social circle. Everyone brings the PC's to me when they are too slow or won't work. I am very discrete and rarely go looking through private pics and files. However, sometimes when I am transferring files I see interesting sites.
There was one guy, a friend of a friend, who I didn't really care for, the kind of guy who had a personal nickname for everyone he knew, and they were seldom complimentary. His name for me was something like Jimmy the Geek, my name is not Jimmy, in return I called him Nasty Ned. NN's wife was nice looking, she had a mouth like a sewer and just as acrid as her husband.
Nasty bring his PC to my home office, it's runny very slow. Now I can tell something is on that PC, because Ned is watching me and asking questions about everything I do. It becomes very obvious that his hard drive is failing, he has no backup and all of his personal and business records could be lost. So I immediately start making a copy of his drive, but because it is failing, it is going to take hours. I tell Ned to call me in the morning and I'll likely have the data transferred back to a new drive, if the old drive doesn't fail in the meantime. This makes Ned very nervous, he asks if he can wait, I explain that it will likely not finish for 8-10 hours. He doesn't like it but he leaves his PC with me.
His drive did fail and I was able to recover his files but it was a long process. I did see that there were many explicit pics of his wife, I did check out a few, but I didn't have time to do more than copy them over and keep moving.
When Ned picked it up I explained the process since his bill was on the high side, but I assured him, since he asked, that I didn't see any of his personal 'data'. I had my fingers crossed behind my back.
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