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demmiblue

(36,838 posts) Wed Mar 30, 2016, 08:30 PM Mar 2016

Any computer experts here? I posted this in the Computer Group, but have not had a response:

Today, someone's sig pic displayed a NSFW photo (multiple sig pics, only one was NSFW). I knew something was up, so I pm'd the poster. The poster did not see the same image as I did, so I pm'd him/her a screen shot. No one said anything to him/her regarding the pic publicly or privately. I scanned my computer with two programs, no problems (I have never had any viruses, and I use AdBlock and NoScript). All of the photos started with https://pbs.twimg.com.

How does this happen?

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Any computer experts here? I posted this in the Computer Group, but have not had a response: (Original Post) demmiblue Mar 2016 OP

Twitter metroins Mar 2016 #1

I know that, but I was wondering why he/she saw one thing and I saw another. demmiblue Mar 2016 #2

Cache? metroins Mar 2016 #3

Hmmm. I know I have viewed this person's posts quite recently... demmiblue Mar 2016 #4

Depends on where they linked their sig pics from, if directly and not from their own photobucket Rex Mar 2016 #5

What's NSFW? arikara Mar 2016 #6

Not safe for work tammywammy Mar 2016 #7

Thanks! arikara Mar 2016 #10

not safe for work edhopper Mar 2016 #8

Thanks! arikara Mar 2016 #9

metroins

(2,550 posts)

1. Twitter

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 08:32 PM

Mar 2016

That's a twitter picture server.

demmiblue

(36,838 posts)

2. I know that, but I was wondering why he/she saw one thing and I saw another.

Reply to metroins (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 08:34 PM

Mar 2016

Thank you, though.

metroins

(2,550 posts)

3. Cache?

Reply to demmiblue (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 08:36 PM

Mar 2016

You're dns could be resolving an old version of a cached picture that was deleted.

The new picture has the same Url as the deleted picture, and other dns's pull the new version.

Depends when the photo is uploaded for that theory.

demmiblue

(36,838 posts)

4. Hmmm. I know I have viewed this person's posts quite recently...

Reply to metroins (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 08:48 PM

Mar 2016

but never saw that picture until today (the pic in question is not something I would forget seeing).

Could the person who initially posted the picture on twitter change the photo to make it NSFW in order troll one of our members (I have no doubt whatsoever that this was not the posters doing, needless to say)?

Rex

(65,616 posts)

5. Depends on where they linked their sig pics from, if directly and not from their own photobucket

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 08:51 PM

Mar 2016

account, the owner of the link can change them at will.

arikara

(5,562 posts)

6. What's NSFW?

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Wed Mar 30, 2016, 09:44 PM

Mar 2016

I'm kind of acronym challenged.

I can't even see twitter pictures on this browser, I think it must have something to do with my ad blockers. If I really want to see one I have to open my old safari.