How do you hide your porn?

[AlanC]

i use some software to lock up my entire external hard drive… unlock it every time before i inspect my legacies. ;D ;D

[groovedware]

I was coming to giggle about not having to hide porn then I remembered all the porn I have that isn't man on man is hidden away in documents.  :blind:

[michael065]

mv porn .porn

[litres46]

These days I bury it deep in obscure folders like everyone else. No one really uses my laptop but me and I lock it if I walk away from it anyway.

However in my early days I'd copy an image off the internet and paste it into a word document, then turn the brightness on the image up 100% So it was just white, then I'd copy paste a wikipedia page over it and name the file something like "Osmosis essay"

[tkteun]

I'd really like to recommend SequiaView, it's a 515KiB download which allows you to easily find your porn back if you've lost it.

[LEVI]

@JamesErvano:

Of course, you could just stream it but does anyone download and how do you hide it from other people.

All of mine is downloaded (around 500GB at present) and it is kept in a folder called XXXrated  :cheers:

[rawr]

I store everything on my file server and the only way anyone can connect to it is via SFTP (or shell.) Everything is stored on a raid 5 array running 5x 2gb disks. I use the server to backup my personal business files as well. Anything I'm actually interested in watching (or re-watching) is on a separate hard drive on my main PC in the drive's root folder. I'm not at all concerned about somebody finding anything.

If you are hyper sensitive about somebody finding your stash I would suggest you buy a cheap laptop and do the "dirty things" on that, then hide it where nobody can find it. Even with something like drive encryption you could still be leaving a history of what you were watching in the video player or websites you don't want people to know you visit could show up with various recovery tools. Plus then you have this encrypted drive and someone could ask "hey yeah what are you hiding on that drive there?" Just get a "business" laptop, make sure your password isn't easy, and use a VPN, I doubt anybody will figure you out. If somebody finds the laptop and questions you, say it's your private personal diary and you would be extremely offended/upset if anybody were to read it.

[BDEinz]

The porn in my laptop is hidden in a folder called "tracing". And the porn in the external HDD is hidden in Documents>Codecs>New Folder

[MrMazda]

This may not be of much use to you directly, however I happen to have a couple of solutions to this….

The first is installing a NAS, which often comes built into some wireless routers. This will allow you to store the content on a virtual network path, which then allows you to control who has access to it. The other option is my server. I have stuff on there that I want to keep hidden from people and do not want to store directly on my laptop. This gives me an easy link into the server through the network, but ensures that the content that I don't want to be visible can be ruled out of the question through the use of username & password authentication. This way, people like my room mate can access the more public shared content on the server, but gets an Access Denied error when he attempts to open any of the shares that contain files that I do not wish others to view (such as porn).

[shdwrulr]

I have my videos in my videos library. I also have windows homegroup setup, so anyone on the network can see & download what is in my video library. Also, it is shared to Plex, so I can stream it to my phone or the 60" HD TV in the living room.

[young]

I never had a "personal" computer till recently and after reading the replies I think I have used all these methods at least once, from putting inside Program Files to changing extensions to making encrypted .RAR archives to now using TrueCrypt

[brackjack]

Truecrypt, a 20+ character encryption key and an external hard drive.

[tuckstee]

In a folder called "Donny & Marie Osmond's Greatest Hits". I think no one will check there.

[myrea]

I don't feel the need to hide it, got a lot in my web favourites, a bookcase with some DVDs and an external disk with some.

[groovedware]

@myrea:

I don't feel the need to hide it, got a lot in my web favourites, a bookcase with some DVDs and an external disk with some.

Yes, I always like to have some with me in some form, just in case of emergencies.  One never knows when there may be a chance to rub out a quick one.

[FirstHorizon]

I save my porn on my NAS (which is also seeding my torrents). The NAS is password protected, and has user management. That way if others want access to my NAS, I can just give them another password and they will see other files.

[AndrewH]

I usually use lockdir to encrypt files

[noisman]

I keep it on my Time Capsule which is password protected.

[dummdidore]

Strange to read this. Why would or should I hide it? Everyone in my life more or less knows that I am watching porn, so what? I've got a partition called porn on my laptop and even if I use the laptop for a presentation at University I don't mind.

Consuming porn is like eating or breathing. I will never feel any shame for that!  :cheers:

[Zipperface]

@tuckstee:

In a folder called "Donny & Marie Osmond's Greatest Hits". I think no one will check there.

Uh, I used to watch the Donny and Marie Show (or whatever it was called). First, because I still thought Donny was kinda cute, but then mostly because the show was such a train wreck, so horribly awful, that I kinda prided myself on being able to sit thru an entire hour of it. A bit like  bragging about, "Yep. Not only have I sat thru Salo (er, actually more than once), Cannibal Holocaust and Nekromantic, but I've also sat through a full hour of Donny and Marie. Multiple times (altho, granted, it took some working up to do the full hour)."