Geek Squad Offers New PornScan® Service
Geek Squad offers a service not on the price list: free backup of your porn to a thumb drive.
One problem — the thumb drive belongs to the Geek Squad ‘agent’ fixing your computer.
The Consumerist rigged screen capture software so that it would make a video of what was going on while their computer was in for service. And, “then we caught one well-seasoned Geek Squad Agent copying personal and pornographic images and video from our computer to his company-issued thumb drive.” They have the video to prove it.
A snapshot of a woman in a bikini was also fair game.
So … those digital photos you promised your girlfriend no one else would see? Oops. Right now they’re the screensaver at a Geek Squad beer bash.
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Perhaps we’re too hasty to condemn this theft of one’s most personal and prized possessions. This button from the Geek Squad site isn’t misleading at all …
… that is, if the “secure, remote site” is your Geek Squad Agent’s jeans.
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