Not how I read it. I will wait to see if he answers.
I can't answer for someone else's post, either, but I'd lean towards Wolf359's hypothesis on the motive, and I can certainly understand people being sensitive on the matter. Nonetheless, Wolf's point about how to provide tech support is well taken. I don't do professional tech support. Fixing Windows issues all day, well, I would have been dead three releases ago. I do fix things up for friends and family on occasion, though. I don't snoop unless absolutely necessary, like the hard drive being full. Generally speaking, I've only had to get rid of a bunch of malware and things are back in order. The only one I've ever said "porn" to was an older lady who had installed a piece of chat malware, which was basically a newer version of the porn dialer. She couldn't get online. She had downloaded, in addition to multiple toolbars (they were there when she bought it, of course), what she thought was a useful chat program. Instead, it modified her internet connection and would try to dial out to a modem at a 1-900 line. Considering she never had it hooked up to a phone line and simply used broadband, the dialing failed, but so did her internet. I told her she had a porn dialer, and I've never seen someone turn so red. I explained to her that it was really just a chat program based on the same principle, and then she saw the humour in it.
In general terms when it comes to data sensitivity, this type of inference is something that has to be nipped in the bud. People who encrypt their data, people who don't want spyware on their computer, and people who don't want their data intercepted are not all tax cheats, pornographers, adulterers, scam artists, hackers, terrorists, or drug dealers. If anyone can see the wisdom in why their utility bills and credit card statements aren't mailed to them printed on postcards, then there shouldn't be any confusion as to why someone would want their computer data protected from thieves, in place, in use, or in transit. I keep all kinds of business and personal financial information on my computer. Wanting to keep that safe from Facebook or Google or Apple or hackers or break and enter aficionados should not raise any eyebrows. When it does, I really question that person's technical skills - or, more accurately, lack thereof.
