Why adveratise illegal kinks?

[Barton]

Yes, but for the purpose of a routine background check they are not going seize your computer. At least not yet anyway.
As far as them being able to find anything on your hard drive, yes they are the best in the business. If its there, they will find it. Now if you destroyed the hard drive throughly, like in a vat of molten steel .
Barton.

[allalone46]

Yes, but for the purpose of a routine background check they are not going seize your computer.
Barton.

When you sign the waver for the perpus of the FBI, and or any state and or local agensey to do a backgrown check on you, you gie them the atherasation to do just that. Read the fine print. And these back grown shcegs can be for anything from a governmaent job from agent to the US government to trash colector, or for things like consealed wepons IDs, to a CDL, to a passport to a biulding permit and a buisness licence. So if some one wants to check you out the government can, and to do just about anything you have alredy given them the permition to do it.

[BDSM_Tourguide]

I don't really know how this conversation evolved from what you can and can't write to what is on your hard drive, but the most effective way to protect yourself (if you have something on your HD that you don't want seen) is with a hard disk scrubber.

What a HD scrubber does is write over the free space on your disk, usually between 3-200 times with random junk digits. So, after you've deleted everything, wiped your cache, etc., you run the scrubber and it overwrites all the info you just deleted.

Some of the less-thorough ones will leave fragments of files, but not much significant. The really expensive one, like the ones that overwrite the info 200 times, are used by the DOD and the DOJ to make deleted material utterly irretrievable.

Once the deleted bits of information on your drive have been overwritten, they are no longer identifiable by any routine disk scan or sweep. If you have a more effective scrubber, your disk will probably stand up to scans from most law enforcement agencies.

[Barton]

The original Norton Utilities used to have a feature to do this. And you are right, that would make deleted data irretrievable. But of course you first have to delete the offending info.
Barton.

[zig]

This certainly has changed topics on me a bit. And I wasn't even asking about what was legal! I suppose, given the information that the government CAN look in your computer and see what you have been looking at, it makes sense to not make anyone watch you more carefully. If I were an FBI agent, I would certainly pay more attention to individuals who worte stories about pedophilia (even though writing stories is legal) or read them. Then, as some of you have said, if you download porn regularly, some stuff you do NOT want to have on your machine sometimes gets downloaded by accident. If you have NOT been on forums expressing desires that represent illegal activities, this accidental porn is less likely to be noticed.

True, you can scrub your disk, but this would involve erasing all your stuff, and would also look bad (an empty computer?). I suppose its just a risk I would be unwilling to take. If I was interested in kinks that are illegal, I would keep my fantasies off the net, just for my own safety.