You probably think your personal own laptop is secure and safe righttt? Your laptop is password encrypted on startup, a big warning sign to warn your curious lil bro or sis from opening it. You probably done everything, granted, but please do NOT overlook the very easily ignored but easily access recent item list.
Scenario :
Lets look at my dear friend, lets call him Mr.L . He is smart, he knows his friends are coming over tonight for some games, and his laptop is having some err.. embarassing stuffs that he wouldn't want to let anybody see in the world, so, he just smartly cut and paste his embarassing folder into a thumbdrive.
Cache - deleted (checked)
Browser history - deleted ( checked )
Moved embarassing folder into thumbdrive ( checked )
Ok, ready to go. So at 6pm today, his friends arrived, Mr. L confidently let them poke around with his computer knowing his embarassing stuff is safely hidden.
So, mr.Kitteh here, who is using Mr.L laptop here, accidentally press start and accidentally moved the mouse to the recent item menu, out pop the recent item list.. so.. something like this popup-ed
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So, of course Mr.Kitteh got the best lol of his life so do his friends, well except with Mr.L here, curiosity still bested Mr.Kitteh, so Mr.Kitteh just right clicked on the files there and selected properties
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note : screenshots above are just for illustration purpose, actual screenshot may vary
Tadahhh, everything regarding that incriminating files is shown, no more secrets, from his uber tech savvy knowledge, Pokekitteh deduced that the G:\ indicates a thumbdrive and hence, pokekitteh knows the files are in Mr.L thumbdrive somewhere eventhough pokekitteh haz no access to his pendrive.
Moral of the lesson : 1 )Never forget to clear your recent item list
2 )Never let friends touch your computer. Ever.
kthxbai
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