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Consumerist Catches Geek Squad Stealing Porn
mekane8 writes "Consumer-advocate blog Consumerist ran a sting operation to catch a Best Buy Geek Squad member searching for and stealing media files from a customer's computer. The article includes the story with screen captures and a video of the technician's actions. From that piece: 'Reached for comment, Geek Squad CEO Robert Stephens expressed desire to launch an internal investigation and said, "If this is true, it's an isolated incident and grounds for termination of the Agent involved." This is not just an isolated incident, according to reports from Geek Squad insiders alleging that Geek Squad techs are stealing porn, images, and music from customer's computers in California, Texas, New Jersey, Virginia and elsewhere. Our sources say that some Geek Squad locations have a common computer set up where everyone dumps their plunder to share with the other technicians.' A related story from a former Geek Squad employee details the decline of the Geek Squad and Best Buy ethics in general."
i heard about this months ago. SD's just NOW posting it? sad.
Apologies to Godwin.
An example of once such feature is a very loud stereo system.
Allow me to take this opportunity to thank you for waking me up in the middle of the night and hurting my ears when you're idling your decibel machine next to me. I only hope you'll thank me in a similar vein when I have perfected a HERF device capable of disabling loud stereos from a distance. You know, as an expression of my freedom to radiate RF at whatever power I please any time of the day or night.