Jul 5 2007Geek Squad is stealing your porn

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Consumerist launched a three month investigation into Geek Squad on claims the technicians would browse computers for sensitive files and then copy them over to their personal drives. They loaded up a computer with porn, rigged the computer to capture video of itself, and then caught a Geek Squad technician stealing the porn off the hard drive. Geek Squad responded that it was an isolated incident, although insiders say the practice is extremely common. So let this be a warning to everyone: keep all your sensitive files on an external hard drive unless you want to share them with Geek Squad employees. Or better yet, just email them all to me and I'll watch over them for you. See this tie I'm wearing? That's how you call tell I'm a professional.

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try putting on some geek porn.... see how they'll react to it hahahah..

yet another reason in the list of 10,000 reasons NOT to use geek squad.

THIS IS TRUE!!!

I know many people that have worked for Geek Squad and they always told me stories about sniffing around customer's computers and finding nasty porn they've collected. Some of the porn was even of their own customers!!! (eg involving bestiality, kitchen utensils/appliances for sex toys, and all that other crazy damn stuff you'd never expect people to do. It is gross and disturbing to think how many people don't know how-to fix their computer, yet they can carefully store/download all their porno with the utmost organizational skills. Hell, I wouldn't even touch the computer after seeing all the dirty crap they have on it. Geek Squad are perverts and have no life. Not to mention, they are probably more skilled in grabbing porno off customer's computers than actually FIXING the computer (retards). Get a better job wankers.

I'm not a GeekSquad tech but I've found some pretty sweet stuff off peoples computers I've fixed. Like video's their 19 year old daughter took showing off her body to send to her boyfriend.
Yeah that was a sweet one.

#4, 'found' is code for slavishly dissected to find... and seriously! You need to share that. It's not fair telling and not sharing.

You're one of those bastards that never brought enough candy for the whole class, aren't ya?

WAAAAA!

I hate you... (I'm just kidding, send me the clip)

Fifth!

ROFLOLCOPTER Windows XP :D

This doesn't really shock me at all. I mean, they're on the Geek Squad. Like they're gonna get tail anywhere else.

Find: *.avi doesn't put you on any kind of fuckin squad except the creep squad. Get your own porn ye scum.

Great, I can just see it now...

[Geek Squad Agent]: Hey Manager, I was running a virus scan and noticed a file name 'babyrape.mov'. Should we check it out?

[Manager]: No, if you do so you will be fired. It is more important to protect the privacy of a rapist then it is to put him/her in jail.

[GSA]: But, what about the baby? Shouldn't it have justice?

[Mgr]: No. We used to do that, but Best Buy and Geek Squad got sued by a serial child rapist because he wouldn't have went to jail if he didn't get a virus and bring his computer to us to fix. Because a concerned agent notified the police and they investigated and found evidence against this man, we had to pay a settlement so now we can never hold anyone accountable for thier actions.

[GSA]: ...

Man, that's why I always look for video capture applications in the process list before I steal porn from customers.

what`s with all the hate? good porn must be shared, only a selfish person keeps the porn to himself.
my ex-boyfriend used to work at a computer store, he fixed PC`s and we found it funny to browse around customer`s hard disks and we found some nasty kinky stuff :)

#9 - I had a great idea. Record a video calling the GeekSquad/BB tech a bunch of random names/whatever, name it something like "bobswife" or something like that and don't open it. Wait a few days until you have to take your PC in and then when you get it back see if it had been opened or deleted or copied.

Or not.

I don't understand why the headline didn't read: "Geek Squad Are In Ur Computerz, Stealing Ur Pronz".

...and you call yourselves geeks...

I remember working as a tech guy for a stereo/computer shop in Edmonton. Moms would drop their kids computers by to be fixed, and while they were there I'd ask if they wanted to know what the kid had been looking at on the web. They'd always say yes, and the kid would NEVER have thought to delete the cookies, plug-ins, and usually any of the cache. I'd show mom some of the filenames (cause double-clicking would have been gross).

LOL... I remember some of the moms storming out of the store or even rushing upstairs to grab the kids out of the CD section. Funny stuff.

When will parents learn not to give their kid a PC all to themselves in thier own room?

Al, you're a fucking jerk. Enough said.

I can top this. Here at work, we have a tech support service. They have him come in one day, and he's supposed to change my network name and password. They fucker deleted all my music and uninstalled Call of Duty 2. He didn't even get my network name changed. And no one asked him to do that. Right then and there I put a Jihad on him.

And yeah, Al, that is pretty lame, going out of your way to snitch on some kid. Jihad on you too.

Yeah vanman, because you're entitled to dick off at work and waste company time playing shit games like Call of Duty 2. Now if it were, say, Evercrack, I'm sure tech support would have let it be. They may have even invited you to their next larp get-together to wear wizard hats and level up your exp by casting a hardening spell on your man-wand. With their mouths.

I used to be a BBY tech... before the days of "Geek Squad" and I thought I just had to share this story.
Short Version:
A girl came in with a camcorder (belonging to her parents) that had a tape stuck in it.... she couldn't open the tape bay to get it out. I could tell something was up right away because she was frantic. Kept saying how she need the tape out of the camcorder asap. So... naturally... as a good tech, I bumped this case to the front of the line... hehe. Sure enough the video was some pretty hot stuff... her boyfriend taping them having sex. The girl was a freshman at my high school at the time. I showed it to one other tech and we decided that we could never tell anyone about it.. hah.
So she came back to the store mayyybe 2 hours later and was soooo relieved that I had gotten the tape out without harming the recorder.
She looked at me with a little smile and ask if I had seen the tape.... I said "No."

Now as for stealing porn off customers computers? I never did that.... why.... I had IE at home.... wasn't too hard to come by.

First, there's no evidence that that screen capture was actually a Geek Squad employee. It's just a series of mouse trails and rt-clicks. I don't doubt that it is, but it's not usable evidence.

Second: ehh, so what if GS looks at your kinky ass homemade porn. It's your kinky ass who made it. And if it's just webfinds, I guarantee the GS guy has much worse on his own computer.

Third, I poked around that site and read some long confession of a former GS employee, and found something much much worse. Apparently one particular department had more computers to fix than money to pay their employees, so they told the Geek Squad to wipe all the hard drives and reinstall windows, and then just tell the customers there was a mistake, Best Buy and GS being protected by a waiver that the customer hastily signed. THAT is more criminal than some 19 year-old checking out your wife's tits.

Oh, and Pastor Al, you're a dick.

Oh and I like the guy who commented on the consumerist post saying that wallpaper was entrapment!

Why the hate?!? You almost make it sound like teenagers looking at pornography and illicit images is a good thing! I'm guessing there's no parents (or people of strong moral fiber) among you.
1. It's illigal for a teen to have this stuff.
2. It's damaging for a teen to view this stuff.
3. The mom was more than appreciative.
4. I'm not a jerk. So there.

hahaha... this is funny. I used to work for the GS (and no, we're not all idiots) and I can't say that anyone actually stole porn from any of the computers (like someone else said, there's plenty out there on the interweb). But in all honesty, who wouldn't look for dirty pics if they had access to a hottie's PC? (and yes, they all have them).

But Al, did you ever offer to show a woman who her husband has been emailing? Did you ever work with the police in busting people who had taken photo's of themselves and drugs? I'm hoping you're answer is no, because it is not your place.

I agree with Pastor Al completely on point number 2: It's damaging for a teen to view this stuff.

That's why I always remove bibles and other religious paraphernalia from any place a child might accidentally encounter it.

Brownie! You've been quiet lately! I've missed your cute retorts.

Sadly, your comment isn't that far from the truth. It blows my mind how people actually DO think that Christianity is in some way harmful, and therefore go to great lengths to remove it. In schools today they can do aboriginal spirit dances, have guest speakers from Islam, encourage the boys to be more "in touch with their feminine side", teach the 10 year olds how to use condoms... theres not even X's on the tests anymore!

Yet, when someone comes in and says, "Hey, I'm worried that the path you are on is dangerous, that your choices are going to harm you and others, and I want to tell you about the God who really loves and and how you can live eternally"... that's bad.

THIS THREAD DELIVERS!!!

Best Geekologie thread ever.

Last bitches, ha ha ha hah ha!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate to steal from Anexio, but Al, I agree with much of what you said in the last post. But I do think that you can say alot of the main points without cramming religion down their throats. And I do understand that pornography can be damaging to a young or even old mind, but I know with me, it would have been more damaging to be snitched out to my mother about something like that. Even more than my father forcing me to go to his nudist colony when I was grounded. Thing about nudist colonies is, as a youngster, you get images of sexy women running around naked. Not the case. Most of the people were at least 50, and the only good looking chick that I only saw once, like me, didn't take her clothes off. Gee, I guess I know you all well enough by now to tell you guys that. Either that, or I'm really drunk. Maybe both.

I agree with Pastor Al in some ways. He didn't do anything wrong by doing his job. It's the parents job to decide what their kids can and can not watch, and their computer too.

As for the harmful to teens part, that is completely unfounded. I would say msot teens have watched porn atleast once in their life, and it does not damage them at all. Hell, I've seen plenty of porn, I'm 16, and I don't anyone would call me damaged.

It is much more harmful to shove religion down a kids throat. It's ok to tell them what you believe and why you believe, but it shouldn't be continuously forced upon them.

I believe all religion should be kept out of schools, and I mean all of it. I think these schools that teach abstinence is the only way need to be done away with. Yes, there are some benifets to abstinence, and should be taught as an option, along with how to use a condom and other safe sex practices.

Normally I saty away from these debates and shit, but I'm bored : - /

I have to agree with Al. A non-existent deity conjured by early man who lived on a flat world incapable of explaining fire and ice probably wouldn't like teenagers jerking off to porn. He sure as heaven won't approve of theft either, may he strike down geeksquad with bolts of lightening from his arse!

Rusty,
I might be swayed by the "porn doesn't damage anyone" argument if I hadn't seen, read, and personally experienced much of the devistating effects of pornography, and yes, premarital sex. It's not just the religious wackos like me that see the problems behind it.
Just ask Courtney, (who I'm assuming is your girlfriend from your myspace page) how much she likes the fact that your mind is full of images of other girls who she is meant to hold the standard of. Ask any woman how she likes having to compete with the fantasy you have in your mind about how sex "should be" based on the education you have recieved from xxx pages, playboy and the like. Ask the models / actresses how great they feel about their job... and why they are doing it. Ask them how they feel about men. Ask the countless men who are addicted to it, who have ruined lives (theirs and others) because of it.
Then turn inward and examine your thought life. Ask yourself how slippery the slope has gotten in your own mind. Has the content escalated yet? From Sears cataloge, to Victoria Secret, to Boobs, to X, to XXX, etc. How has it effected your thought life, ability to concentrate, and ability to hold normal conversations and have friendships with women? Has it caused you to put pressure on your girlfriends and ruin / harm relationships? Could you stop looking if you had to? Etc. Etc.

This is not some namby-pamby, innocent, "nobody gets hurt' thing. Porn is powerful and damaging. Sex is amazing, wonderful and great... when treated with the care and respect it deserves.

Longwinded enough? Well, I'm pretty passionate about this subject.

I completely agree with you, Al.
Neither I nor any of my girl friends think anything good of a porno addict. In fact, those are the guys we put on our "I'll burn in hell before I even talk to you" list.
So, I would in fact called you "damaged," Rusty.

Holy Crap Al! shut the fuck up, u snitched on a little kid (who the fuck cares what his curious little mind sees) and then say in comment 33 "could you stop looking if you had to" sex addiction only occurs because that person was already fucked up!
im 16 and if anything " damages " me its everything thats not a form of escapism ( forms of escapisim would include, T.V, Movies and yes even porn), its my parents who hate eachother, its fear that leads to wars all across the globe, its religious types cramming it down peoples throats!
i am a christian, i do love and worship a god who teaches forgivness and compassion, but the bible says love thy neighbor not preach to him, coz they will never listen anyway.
but guess what, i believe in god because i was taught to, young minds are impressionable so when your teaching your actually brainwashing, i still believe in god because even though he has never contacted me, there is no proof of his existance and he was only ever mentioned in a book written 2000 years ago, is because i can't get him out of my fuckin head!!!
religion is more damaging than any fucking porn so take ur moral fibre, shove it up your ass, film it and then post it on the net so kids can download it and be snitched on by other idiots like you.

religion only works when peple believe in it for the right reasons.

Well then you're the worst Chrisitian I've ever heard of. The bible discourages porn and anything other than sex with your married partner. And it does encourage spreading the word to others, although preaching and teaching aren't neccessarily the same thing.
And honestly. What are the "right reasons" for having a religion? Because everyone else is doing it? *rolls eyes*

Fuck, my comps in the shop right now. Hope Al isn't still in the computer business.

And yeah, I'm a girl. I look at porn, too. What of it?

your missing my point random nigel, im a christian because i cant help it, those religious ideas were forced into my brain from a young age until it was just plain brainwashing. 16 years later im only just breaking the chains now, i can oppose the religion and all it stands for, but not yet have i been able to actuallay say "i don't believe in god". that is what i would call "damaging"
Porn on the other hand has never damaged me pychologically in the slightest.
btw, screw the fucking bible, none of it's teachings have done me any good whatsoever anyway. if you ever read that thing, gods done some pretty fucked up shit, what the hell did Jobe do to deserve what he got? nothing! It was all a test of faith!
im not trying to defend porn, it dosn't need defending, im just saying that Pastor Al is a dick.

"...im a christian because i cant help it..."
Bullshit. Religion is completely a choice of the individual. They weren't brainwashing you, they were teaching you what they think is right because they don't want you to turn into an ass. So it's damaging that they wanted you to end up in a good place? How dare they! You should get what you deserve! Why shouldn't they let you burn in hell?!

...A good question indeed.

you know what, thank you, your right i do have a choice to believe in whatever the hell i wan't. although i must admit i was in a bit of a mood when i wrote that and may have sounded like a bit of a jerk, sorry.
that being said, Pastor Al still snitched on a little kid.
Also, how come none of that shit in the bible actually works, stuff like prayer. not once have any of my prayers been answered. i guess i feel a bit jipped by God.

i guess it really depends on who the child in question is, what theyre like, intelligence (emotional intelligence included), and a few million other various factors on whether or not its damaging or not, also, how exactly would you, ANY of the people posting here, define someone as being damaged. although, personally i find ratting on a kid a pretty shitty thing to do, but that doesn't actually mean it is.

that being said this is turning into a religious debate with closed-minded people on both (a touch dualistic of me) sides of the debate.

But he doesn't know the kid at all, he's just fixing his computer. So snitching on some kid just makes you look like an asshole.

true, although he seems like an asshole you cant really judge him until you know who teh id is, for all we know teh kid might have ended up m,entally scarred because of it. so im just gonna go against my gut and give him teh benifit of the doub,.

yeesh, i just noticed how many typos were in that, sorry.

Organized religion is a sin in itself. I love how this has become a religious argument... I always seem to find these, or perhaps they find me.

Two things have caused just about every war that's ever been:

1.) Religion
2.) Beliefs

Religion has caused more deaths, directly and indirectly, than anything else in the world, I would say... save for maybe dying itself. People are either devotees or victims. Most of us are victims of the nagging and whining of Christian activists in this country. This country was meant to be the land of the free, freedom --- yet the Christian community wants to control it "under God." Stop making decisions for God --- I'm sure that he/she/it is capable of doing so, thinking such, organizing whatever they need to without your cursed human brain tricking itself into thinking so. Just because you serve your God doesn't make you an almighty extension of divine power. You're still human and eat, sleep, breath like the rest of us.

Personally, Christianity causes more problems than it helps to fix. This is merely my opinion, of course, having "practiced" Christianity all my childhood in a Pentecostal family. Religion is a hamper --- a chain --- preventing you from becoming something more. It's made to make you a slave to an idea-God, whose only purpose is to devour your time, mind, and money and eventually sending you to the "heaven" where you will worship he/she/it for all eternity forever and ever. Sound fun? Eternal enslavement...

God is good! God is great! God is perfect!

Is this true? According to the Bible, yes, and everything he does and makes is perfect and good. How come, then, he created an angel who defected, became the very EVIL (other than sin) that Christianity scorns? Your God created your problem, your demons, and your sin. Why do you look to the world and judge when your God is the cause of the very evil you seek to destroy?

If I die and find that God is true, and is real, and I see God, I will do all that is within my ability to spit in that fucker's face. What a joke... I would rather burn in the Christian's hell eternally for that one moment of rebellion. It would be worth it, if it were true.

You have one weapon against the God of the people... free will. Use it well.

There is only one God, and that is yourself.

thanks for the essay gabriel, i agree with you on the most part espcially the enslavement part. but your a slave to the church's interpretation of the idea of god, not god it'self. so the second you die and go to heaven (assuminmg there is one) you will reliase that the bible is really old and when they say words like servent and worshiper, you (i.e mankind) automatically conotates them with slavery. gods allpowerful, he can do his own dirty work, he dosn't need slaves so he will make you a friend instead and give you unlimited access to paradise. you don't have to go to church to be gods friend ( if you do then your his slave), just do a few good deeds here and there and then whats 80-90 years compared to eternity?
did god really create a shit world or did we? or did Satan?
why is it so much easier to belive in a devil than a compasionate god?
just a few rehtorical questions to ponder.
well go on, start pondering!

Please visit http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/. Thank you.

ok all in all what this boils down to is church and state and the fact that the bible to be used in any type of legal argument is invalid and contradicts the first amendment because using it for legal terms would be pressuring it into our society. What Al did is what a responsible adult should do and it would have been worse for him if anyone were to findout that he knew of the porn and didnt say anything. He was basically covering his bases.

I would do that same AI

Hey bill
Please visit http://godisimaginary.com/index.htm. Thank you.

Oh and Gabriel, I completely agree with you.
Hit it right on the money.

oops...
http://godisimaginary.com/index.htm

try this link instead

Ok. I am christian. My parents force me to go to church, sunday, wednesday, and friday. (sunday i go to church 6 hours) guys... trust me. i am a bad kid lol. i must be like the most corrupted christian kid ever. i fucking hate church with a passion. but i'm christian because my parents are what i like to call super christian fags. i agree with both sides. religion is a little bit annoying. but hey i do want to get into heaven. al, you r a dick. the kid is probably damaged bcuz of the embarrasment u caused

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the kid is probably so embarrased that he killed him self.
the bible doesnt say u cant jack off. jacking off is better then pre marital sex ( which i plan to do any way ) btw im 15. so Al suck the almighty cock of jesus. jesus 4 giv my sins but Al is pig shit. btw i found this web site by searching porn in google. ( so did al )

I love this thread. It was about a geeksquad employee looking up porn on peoples computers and downloading it for themselves, and it turned into a religious debate about how much pornography damages people.

I'm 15 years old and have seen plenty of porn, and I am not damaged at all. I know what real sex is, there is a difference between passionate real sex, and porn. If you cant see this difference by this age then you already have a problem.

Whatever.. I work for Geek Squad and sure people probably do this.. but anywhere you take your computer you run the risk of people looking at your porn. Plus if you a pervert why would you care if people saw your porn collection anyways? I've turned on computers of nasty perverts with porn that is actually their desktop.

Who cares

al ... you are a douche! let the kid be and just fix the god damned computer! P.S. I 100% agree with you

(with Suck My)

prayer arnt meant to be answered their meant to be heard you want you prayers answered go cry to your mom you all wish go was imaginary beacause your afraid to be judged in the end noone needs to tell anyone god is real anymore its up to you to beleive now and i honestly hope you dont so i can chop your heads off with a flame sword in the apocalyptic wars so have fun

amen

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