TIL the DCIM directory stands for "Digital Camera Images"
TIL the DCIM directory stands for "Digital Camera Images"
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neat
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For quite a long while search engines would return amazing results when you searched for
Dsc-0001.jpg
And so on, perhaps with some variations based on camera model. People uploaded their DCIM folders to their homedirs which were sometimes exposed to the web. You'd see so much private stuff this way.
Just tried and it appears such functionality has been removed from Google, because of course it has.
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Sad, you can still do this with youtube for the time being
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I bet Google themselves can still see them though, for training their AI.
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Why were their homedirs exposed to the web?
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In the 90s and early 00's it was really common for Universities (for their students and professors) to arrange Unix based shell accounts for email and storage.
The Apache http server was easily configured to allow per user websites and this was commonly done to give everyone a website. They looked something like a "www.example.com/~username" URL which mapped to a public_html folder inside the user's home directory. Apache would serve up any files or html that lived inside to the public.
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/public_html.html
At the time, a lot of people didn't worry about anyone finding their obscure files, so put them there freely for family and friends.
Wild times!
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Reminds me of how you used to be able to control various unsecured IP security cams by typing part of the URL that is common among them into Google.
I remember stumbling upon some random office building in China and was able to fully control every camera in the place. I never did anything beyond pan them around a bit—and nobody ever reacted to my antics—so I guess the camera movements either weren't very obvious or staff was just used to being watched by management/random people.
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It looks like you can still search for private directories with specific keywords.
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So simple, yet so far away.
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So it should have been DCI all this time. Or DICAIM.
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Dick aim? 🤔
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Digital Camera Images. Multiple.
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DCIS?
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It should have been not abbreviated this whole time.
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I pronounce it as Daysim and you can't stop me
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I pronounce it as day cum and you definitely can stop me
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But I don't want to stop you
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i can if i think up a worse way to pronounce it. i'm leaning tsee, like first consonant like tzatziki, and the M is silent
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Been there for ages I guess, I have a 2.0 MEGAPIXEL FujiFilm FinePix with a DCIM directory.
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Came here to say pretty much the same - the two digital cameras I had before the "half-way decent cameras in your smartphone" age (including one which wasn't that specific model but a similar one from the same generation) both had a DCIM directory.
The only surprise I had around DCIM was at some point finding out that there was a directory with that name inside my Android phone since I expected everything would end up under Photos.
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I think it's another Windows hangover, I first saw it as a USB Windows spec way back when MTP was a mode as well. Fucking Windows, fucking with the image storage on my android phones 20 years layer.
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I had one of those cameras maybe 20 years ago, it took really good pictures. I used to carry it with me everywhere and always looked for artsy stuff to take pictures of.
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Hahah same here, they did take good pictures even with the relatively low res sensor, I suppose all the extra room for camera optics helps as opposed to packing it all into a thin phone.
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Thank you!! I move files around on android all the time and I see that folder constantly. I just never cared enough to look up what it stood for lmao.
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Imagine if you were a malicious actor and you wanted a copy of all photos someone plugged into a computer that were not things like browser cache, just good honest to god OC.
All you have to do is listen on drive letters D, E, F, G and when one is plugged in with a DCIM directory... silently upload the data contents to a server over the internet when a drive is detected with that subdirectory.
Have you ever wondered why you couldn't eject a drive without rebooting? It's not like it's going to tell you what process is keeping it locked... Encryption wouldn't even matter, because you're gonna need to decrypt/unlock it to access it, and windows doesn't care what service or application is trying to access it, it is glad to allow any kind of file action without even admin rights.
Anywho, actor has your photo, AI trivially builds facial recognition models, pulls in timestamps, geolocation metadata, camera metadata... and now those photos you never intended to upload anywhere are in a database of PII that will be shared to god-knows-who.
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If someone else has the ability to upload any of your files then the name of your folders is completely unimportant.
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How do you know that the latest version of a piece of software that auto updated on your computer doesn't have anything snooping on your hard drive and uploading whatever it wants somewhere?
Think about it. How would you know? Let's assume it's not using a bug, exploit or vulnerability.
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I'm not sure how that's relevant? If the default folder was "Camera" or "Pictures" or whatever else your malware would just scan those directories and any real attack likely already does. You've only described how having malware on your machine compromises your machine, not exactly a groundbreaking revelation.
Windows hasn't been my main os for a while but I'm fairly certain you can mount/unmount drives without rebooting. That's certainly the case on Linux, and my distro definitely tells me what processes are locking drives when applicable.
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Windows hasn’t been my main os for a while but I’m fairly certain you can mount/unmount drives without rebooting.
I work in IT for a living. Sometimes something keeps your drive locked. Windows does not confess. I wasn't talking about linux user experience because most people don't use linux like we do.
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Have you ever wondered why you couldn't eject a drive without rebooting? It's not like it's going to tell you what process is keeping it locked
Windows PowerToys has had this as a function for a long as I can remember. Before that there were programs which existed only to tell you what process was keeping a folder or drive open. On Linux
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On top of this, it’s usually because the local cache hasn’t actually written all the data to the drive and if you go yanking the drive in this state, your most recent chunk of data would be missing or corrupt. The eject button forces your OS to clear its write cache before unmounting the file system.
But that’s a lot less of an exciting answer.
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Powertoys should be installed by default. Its a testament to how out of touch MS is that they leave all these great features as a little known optional install. Almost every single thing in power tools should be in windows outright.
I use it on any machine that I have to use windows on, and tell everyone I can about it. Just feels like such a miss to leave those features out of the OS
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Yeah, File Locksmith from Power toys is great!
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I have power toys... well on my windows dual boot anyway. Do normal users? Probably not.
I've used unlocker tools in the past as well, but this is not something provided in the OS and as such not something a typical user is even aware of, let alone has available.
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The unmounting needing a reboot seems very much a you problem.
I have managed over 1000 systems since XP days and never came across it.
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You've never, ever plugged in a thumbdrive and then used the "safely remove hardware" tray to try and eject... only to receive an error that says "unable to remove, in use" or similar?
I guess i've never seen it happen when I was using a thumb drive to image a machine well over a decade ago.
There are a few people on the internet who seem to have reported this though:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHelp/comments/pnbfcf/this_device_is_currently_in_use_when_trying_to/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4212072/cant-eject-external-hard-drive
There are thousands of results of this. I have encountered this dozens of times personally across dozens of different systems.
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You'd be surprised (or maybe not) at how many people name folders or files, "your eyes only"
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Read about magic bytes
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It's pronounced "Jim".
Its actually "dickim”
Only if you get his permission.
I hardly knew 'im!
Dick Kickem
Yeah I did
I don't understand what his personal life has to do with this, although I cannot provide doubt as to whether he has some junk in his trunk.
If GIF is "Jiff", then DCIM has to be "Jizz".