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Consumerist Catches Geek Squad Stealing Porn

Posted by Zonk on from the downside-of-a-hired-gun dept.

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."

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  1. Laptop Disc Links Chirac To Smear Plot .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    globaltics.net

  2. Linus is right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am with Linus on this one.

  3. old news. by CraniumDesigns · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i heard about this months ago. SD's just NOW posting it? sad.

  4. Re:The decline of ethics????? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The government isn't ethical, so why should this guy feel like he should be? If I searched for 10 mins, I could easily find over 50 examples of ways the Bush-Cheney has been unethical...

  5. Re:The decline of ethics????? by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Bushwin'd? =)

    Apologies to Godwin.

  6. Re:Oblig Car Analogy by DamnStupidElf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

  7. Fuckin' right that's insigtful. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does you truck have a trunk like his? I don't think so. Only in Soviet America could a Canadian get away with that getting stuck on a US'ian server (Slashdot) and modded up Insightful.

    I saw a corvette front-end replace the front-end of a pickup-truck. It looked nasty, but baby she could haul with style.

    How is this any different than both US'ian political parties molding together their mascotts, to show an Elephant with buck teef or a Donkey with a trunk and a 4'ft-long cock /w 5 gallons of jizz on standby? You know the ladies will be floating their denchers when they sit for that Congress.