Geek Squad busts man for child p0rn in DSM
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Glad they got these trash bags
Had to look and see if they worked for the Register, guess not this time.
Not gunna lie. When it says his laptop was covered in gravy, I questioned weather it was "Man Gravy".
Have ever had the chicken basket with the gravy dipping sauce from Dairy Queen? It's worth ruining electronics for.
Reminds me of a case I worked a long tome ago.
A woman brought her dying laptop into CompUSA (remember them?) that ultimately needed a new hard drive, so the techs slaves her existing hard drive to a floor computer, copies everything onto the desktop of the floor computer and burns the data onto a dvd. The tech never deleted the files off of the floor demo computer. Along comes a grandmother who bought the floor model and gave it to her grandson for his birthday.
The grandson sets up his new computer and finds a strange folder on the desktop....it in is the woman’s personal files from her dying laptop. Which includes several nude selfies, her graduate course work for grief counseling as well as several drafts of her suicide notes. The kid burns the data onto a dvd, drops it off at her house and deletes the files from the computer.
She sued CompUSA, of course....
I would never work at Geek Squad out of sheer horror of what I could come across
A woman brought her dying laptop into CompUSA (remember them?) that ultimately needed a new hard drive, so the techs slaves her existing hard drive to a floor computer, copies everything onto the desktop of the floor computer and burns the data onto a dvd. The tech never deleted the files off of the floor demo computer. Along comes a grandmother who bought the floor model and gave it to her grandson for his birthday.
The grandson sets up his new computer and finds a strange folder on the desktop....it in is the woman’s personal files from her dying laptop. Which includes several nude selfies, her graduate course work for grief counseling as well as several drafts of her suicide notes. The kid burns the data onto a dvd, drops it off at her house and deletes the files from the computer.
She sued CompUSA, of course....
I would never work at Geek Squad out of sheer horror of what I could come across
As someone who used to run an IT support dept, seeing some of the things sales rep left on their laptop was nauseating.
Hard to have any sympathy for this guy but if they are looking at this stuff on someones computer they are just supposed to be copying than they can also be looking at less disturbing but personal data like your S.S. , personal finances, tax returns and such. 
I know Tommy is still an easy target for that, but I wouldn’t put hiring a hooker on the same level as having child porn.
Hard to have any sympathy for this guy but if they are looking at this stuff on someones computer they are just supposed to be copying than they can also be looking at less disturbing but personal data like your S.S. , personal finances, tax returns and such.
I’m torn on this. If they come across it while doing the work, they should absolutely report it instead of saying “it’s none of our business.”
On the other hand, I agree that they shouldn’t blur the lines into snooping through people’s personal files.
Hard to have any sympathy for this guy but if they are looking at this stuff on someones computer they are just supposed to be copying than they can also be looking at less disturbing but personal data like your S.S. , personal finances, tax returns and such.
Sure, but lets be honest, people are morons. What are the chances this guy had these files sitting right there on his desktop?
Id agree that techs shouldnt be digging deep into people's files though. If they come across something while doing their job then that's another story
I would guess the viruses and stuff they were trying to fix are related to those things. Probably drug them in.
I have no idea how infected that stuff is but as nasty as it is, I hope it blows peoples computers up so they get caught.
This story would be a whole lot funnier if it didn't involve children. Glad they got him though.