I was initially just going to make a comment about this on the other post on the broader topic, but I’m in so much awe that I am compelled to make this its own post. I need to document this. This is a case study.
When I first heard about this, I assumed what happened was he had his porn folder open prior to the stream, forgot about it, and accidentally minimized a window to reveal it. I haven’t gone looking for the clip, I don’t care to see the images no matter how low-res they are displayed, but from what I’ve gathered second-hand it’s so much more incompetent.
His porn folder was, as far as I’ve gathered:
- In his desktop folder
- Had zero nesting
- On his stream PC
This has had me thinking for the past day-and-a-half how many options he had access to if he wanted to create any single degree of separation between his work computer and his fetishistic material. Let’s assume he’s absolutely not going to budge on client-side hosting of his porn. Let’s also framework this in a counterfactual where this isn’t creepo or even morally-ambiguous shit he’s hiding, just embarrassing if aired out publicly, so that I can comfortably rant about basic infosec without feeling like I’m running defensive for his tastes and what was actually found in his porn folder.
There are so many things he could have done to obfuscate/disconnect/distance it so that he would have had a lower risk of exposing his hentai to the world. I am a hobbyist infosec gal. I am an amateur infosec gal. Here are all the ideas I have come up with so far:
- Create another account for stream purposes on his computer that only has access to your user directory and move the porn out of it
(FREE) - Add N levels of nesting to the folder so that you can easily bail if you accidentally click it on stream
(FREE) - Move the folder to an obscure, barely-used folder
(FREE)- I use Mac primarily, but I know the Windows file structure. Vaush. You are not using Paint3D. The 3D Objects folder is right there. Why is it on your Desktop.
- Put it on an encrypted disk image
(FREE)- Fuck, just put it on a disk image, even that's an attempt at obfuscation
(FREE)
- Fuck, just put it on a disk image, even that's an attempt at obfuscation
- Make sure the porn that you have in the folder on your desktop called TO BE SORTED is sorted away into deeper-nested folders, you know, before you start streaming
(FREE) - Hide the folder by checking the ‘Hidden’ option in the Attributes menu, accessed by right-clicking on the folder
(FREE) - Hide thumbnails. Force list view in File Explorer. According to my Destiny-adjacent high-school friend that called me to talk about this shit, some of the images had what they depicted in the title. Simply don't have the files named in an explicit manner, which could be accomplished in multiple ways, like:
- Manually renaming them after you download them which takes approximately as much effort to do as moving the file from your Downloads folder to your TO BE SORTED folder
(FREE) - If you're downloading them programmatically (e.g. using gallery-dl) you can most likely configure it to name the files by post ID instead of what I assume is their title, which is at least obfuscated to a degree
(FREE) - Use a schtask (Windows cronjob)
(UNNECESSARILY COMPLICATED AND YOU HAVE TO LEARN POWERSHELL [EW] BUT IF YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED TO HAVE IT ON YOUR STREAM PC DESKTOP AND CANNOT BE BOTHERED TO SORT OR HIDE THE PORN IT IS A FREE OPTION)that either:- Autosorts the named pornography out of view. Vaush. Buddy. The folder is called TO BE SORTED. I’m assuming the sorting is categorical. You could easily regex that. If they aren’t depicted in the title and thus cannot be regexed, then hiding thumbs solves the exposure potentiality.
- Renames files in the folder to an encrypted version of the file name. If you want to manually sort it, then why are you maintaining file names in the first place. Have that shit run the file’s name through even just base64 encryption. You can have it decrypt automatically when put in a sorted folder with another schtask.
- Manually renaming them after you download them which takes approximately as much effort to do as moving the file from your Downloads folder to your TO BE SORTED folder
- Buy an external SSD for it
(YOU HAVE THE MONEY) - Buy a laptop for it
(YOU HAVE THE MONEY)
Any number of these options being employed would be enough of an attempt at infosec to at least afford you an argument against whether you are entirely incompetent. Vaush, you are on the internet. You are extremely internet-brained. ‘Homework folder’ is pretty much a ubiquitous meme. Nesting folders is the most easily accessible and obvious infosec advice given to anyone on the internet.
I want to reiterate the situation here. Vaush is a public figure. Vaush displays his computer screen for hours at a time as a profession. Vaush has already been accused ad nauseam of airing out the exact sexual inclinations he accidentally revealed to the point where there are double-digit item masterposts chronicling material over a span of years to inform people of these tendencies, posts that have existed for years prior to this incident.
And this motherfucker had his porn folder on the desktop of his stream PC, two errant clicks away from exposing his porn to the world over the multiple hours a day he streams.
This wasn’t an accident. This can’t be classified as an accident. I refuse to award this the nomenclature of ‘accidental’. This was a statistical eventuality. This is active malpractice. I’m in awe 
