Originally Posted by Mousey
Do they have profiles here?
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Do they have profiles here?
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You think you're slick, but you're not. Believe me, they know. I owned 4 internet cafés in the early noughties. Depending on how bored the attendant who was on duty was, you'd get quite the embarrassing outing. I remember on one occasion the guy's girlfriend was using a computer a couple of seats away (there weren't two available computers together). Anyway it was fairly dramatic.You should be fine Mousey, I've gone on E-I at an internet cafe on Talbott St. myself, I just did what a lot of the others have suggrsted, which was to NOT log-in to the forums, and keep a few other tabs open, so you could bring something else up on the screen if someone walked by right behind you. If you're just doing a quick check to see who's in town & to write down numbers, then it shouldn't take more than a few minutes at best, and you can always ask for a secluded/private spot inside the cafe, as was also suggested.
Should be no worries, hope you have a great punt then Mousey!!
If you can afford an escort you can afford a smartphone or a netbook and and a mobile broadband connection.
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What exactly can they see?Can they see all unencrypted data or just the sites you visited?
Also, I've always wondered why a lot of them shut down in Cork? Is business slowing down in them or maybe regulation/licencing issues?
From now on I think I'll try to somehow connect my mobile phone to my laptop but I'm not sure if I can do it and I'm not all for routinely bringing my laptop in the car with me because of overheating, getting knocks, etc.
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TBH if they want they can see everything if they want, they can have a monitoring enabled and record every keystroke.
On the other hand it could be classified as intrusion to your privacy and they shouldn't really read anything. It would be like opening your mail. I know that not even your employer is entitled to read your company emails.
That would be a question for some lawyer which I'm not.
I would recommend to use at least a private browsing, which won't leave any traces of your doing on the computer. Doesn't save history, temporary files nor cookies.
But in most cafes they dont give a shit what you doing, there is student staff that knows how to switch on computer and printer and thats it
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Well with the café manager software they can see the screen as you use it. Also, many places have VNC running in a hidden mode. So to answer your question they see what you see.
nicegirlsarenice (23-06-10)
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This a really ignorant view of internet cafe workers. One of the lads I used to employ is now working for google as an engineer, he helped develop the new google command line app.
Another one of my lads was part of the group that found, and then later published the security flaw in the Netopia eircom routers installed in many businesses and homes in Ireland.
Geeks like other geeks, and as there are very few part time I.T. jobs for college students Internet Cafés become havens for talented I.T. people.
The other types of internet cafés are owned by foreigners, Chinese. They aren't exactly known for being luddites.
We used to be amazed at the amount of personal data that was left on our computers. Photos, CVs, PPS numbers: the lot. People routinely left, and never claimed, important documents. We used to get at least 3 passports a month.
Long story short, it would be very difficult to be secure in an internet café unless you were using your own laptop and you were encrypting all your traffic.
Like I said before, invest in a smart phone (iPhone) or a netbook with a mobile broadband connection.
nicegirlsarenice (23-06-10)
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I never realised they could be that invasive, they're not subject to regulations or checks or anything? Wow....
Man, there are some places I can't ever show my face again.
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You're surprised that there aren't regulations? What to insure your privacy while you surf escort websites? It's the other way around actually... I was worried about people surfing for child porn. At the end of the day you're paying to use someone else's computer.I never realised they could be that invasive, they're not subject to regulations or checks or anything? Wow....
Man, there are some places I can't ever show my face again.
I never ceased to be amazed how people just assume their internet transactions are private. The internet was conceptually designed to be open, completely. Yet people are surprised it's not "secure" like it's just your internet and not everyone else's as well.
Your IP address is logged every time you access this, or any other, website. It's up to the site administrator to decide when those IP logs are deleted or archived. Your ISP (internet service provider) knows the MAC address of the computer and the site IP visited, any number of people could access to those logs.
The internet is network, your and my computers are nodes on that network leaving a digital trail. You should educate yourself with regards to proxies, TOR, encryption, and anonymous VPNs if you want any real security.
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Don't think I'm "slick", and really couldn't be bothered if someone working there ultimately knew (or would later be able to find out) if I'd been on an escort website or not. If there actually had been someone working there that would've been so rude, intrusive (and bored as you've said) as to actually confront me regarding the website I was looking at, I'd have told them where they could stick it and promptly left the place. It's not as if they had my name or any other private info-- I'd only done so once, as Mousey was saying he's done, to confirm which ladies were in town, something I hadn't been able to do earlier as I'd been travelling. Normally I do so at home, as I do in fact have access to the internet, thank you very much.
I was simply trying to urge Mousey to go on ahead and have a quick look at a net cafe to confirm what ladies were available and not be worried about nosey and bored jackasses poking into his business and internet browsing. I'll leave the computing expertise to you.
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