Geek Squad Stealing Customer’s “Data”

11 Responses

1. pwntastic

   July 23rd, 2007 at 4:03 am

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   you act as if you are surprised. anybody dumb enough to pay to get iTunes installed is setting themselves up for this

2. Install ITunes yourself Dumbass

   July 23rd, 2007 at 4:50 am

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   haha

3. Tman

   July 23rd, 2007 at 5:12 am

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   That is messed up. I use a wonderful program known as ax-crypt that will let you lock out any file with a simple password that only you know; Might be useful in future dealings with any dealer.

4. SW

   July 23rd, 2007 at 8:38 am

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   Is anyone really surprised by this?

5. KC

   July 23rd, 2007 at 8:52 am

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   Ethics… or the lack of them… blame their mamas and papas for whichever, usually.

   I repair computers. I do not steal from my clients.
   When I run system scans, I look only at the file names, where they might be, and do my best to determine if the files are malicious or not.
   I make it a point to not remember passwords, but sodium pentothal would probably bring them back.

   When you get right down to it, we technicians are not much more than mechanics, but the nice thing about having your car break down is that most of the time you have a chance to remove things that are yours before it goes to the shop.

6. Dhargj

   July 23rd, 2007 at 11:10 pm

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   Am I the only one who wouldn\’t care if he stole my porn?

7. clonex

   July 25th, 2007 at 9:17 am

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   hell he could put more porn on their for all i care. all my private data is stored on an external.

8. BRMWK

   July 25th, 2007 at 10:16 am

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   No matter who you are, NEVER send your computer out to get software installed, unless its a fresh copy of an OS and you are unfamiliar with such things. Installing iTunes is not rocket science, or even akin to baking bread. Secondly, never hand over your computer to anyone who may access your data without first taking steps to encrypt/hide or remove any personal data.

9. Layne Bernardo

   July 31st, 2007 at 8:19 pm

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   He didn’t send it because he didn’t know how to install iTunes, he sent it so he could record them stealing his files. If you would actually watch the video and listen you would know that.

10. Anonymous

    August 5th, 2007 at 2:50 am

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    I’m kind of glad the video doesn’t play. It came from YouTube and was removed from YouTube due to a TOS violation. You know why? The source is consumerist:

    http://consumerist.com/consumer/investigations/video-consumerist-catches-geek-squad-stealing-p0rn-from-customers-computer-271963.php

    You’ll have to replace the zero with an “o” - your spam checker found it.

11. Thomas Dickensheets

    March 18th, 2008 at 1:47 pm

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    I wonder Teddy Ruxpin say about this.