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Undercover Cameras Catch PC Repair Scams, Privacy Violations
Barence writes "With help from readers of PC Pro, Sky News in the UK launched an undercover investigation into rogue PC repair shops. As a result, Sky's cameras caught technicians scouring through private photos, stealing passwords and over-charging for basic repairs. It was a simple enough job: 'To create the fault, we simply loosened one of the memory chips so Windows wouldn't load. To get things working again, one needs only push the chip back into the slot and reboot the machine. Any half-way competent engineers should fix it in minutes.' But these technicians had other ideas, stealing photos and documents, as well as login details for email and bank accounts."
Fully competent engineers make the best PC repairmen.
Halfway competent engineers should stick to engineering.
1) Collect images of goatse, lemonparty, etc
2) Move to folder marked "Private"
3) Loosen memory chip
4) Bring computer to snoopy repair shop.
5) Laugh as crooked tech's scream "Augghh, my eyes!"
(there is no ???, but there also is no profit. Sorry)
I think I will google for "cantopop" first...
No you don't.
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Back in the days when all computers were mainframes, a company's computer stopped working, so they hired a consultant to fix it. The consultant walked in, took out a small hammer and tapped the computer, which started working. He billed the company $1000.
The CEO was outraged, and demanded that a detailed bill be sent. The bill came back:
Tapping computer with small hammer - $1
Knowing where to tap - $999
Free Martian Whores!
"A lot" is two words. You wouldn't say "alittle", would you?
iwould
Humor from a Genetically Molested Mind
"$7.25/hr isn't a sane amount of money for a computer technician in the US."
That's why you need a tip jar.
Let's see what tips I've got, being a tech in a computer store....
1) $10 every four or five months,
2) $20 maybe once a year,
3) repeated offers to get in on a pyramid scheme,
4) an offer to witness me convert religions and, when I declined, a promise that the offerer would pray that I would see the light, as I might die tomorrow and be cast into the firey pit with all the other unsaved,
5) an offer to go to a certain motel at a certain time to meet some people for a reason the person wasn't willing to entirely clarify beyond "It's easy money!",
6) a suggestion that the customer's Eastern European niece was a real nice girl and I should e-mail her, maybe start a relationship,
7) and a dude who said I could burn a copy of his 'barely legal cheerleaders being spanked' porn collection.
the time I would spend fixing my aunt virus infected computer
Perhaps you should consider some auntie virus software... Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the veal!
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