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FBI Is Apparently Paying Geek Squad Members To Dig Around For Evidence Of Criminal Activity
Tech Dirt ^ | January 9, 2017 | Tim Cushing

Posted on 01/09/2017 6:59:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 01/09/2017 6:59:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As long as whomever is watching any follower of islam closely, dilligaf.

Eliminate the evil among us and those that may follow the death cult of islam.


2 posted on 01/09/2017 7:01:46 PM PST by soycd
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Jihadists are exempt. Every one of them have long been on radar, sometimes questioned over threats they’ve publicly made, and each time they were cut loose to go ahead and eventually strike down Americans.

Sgt. Akbar, the Boston bombers, the Orlando shooter, the San Bernadino couple, the Florida airport shooter, on and on...


3 posted on 01/09/2017 7:07:25 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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[I]n Rettenmaier's case, the alleged "Jenny" image was found on unallocated "trash" space, meaning it could only be retrieved by "carving" with costly, highly sophisticated forensics tools. In other words, it's arguable a computer's owner wouldn't know of its existence. (For example, malware can secretly implant files.) Worse for the FBI, a federal appellate court unequivocally declared in February 2011 (USA v. Andrew Flyer) that pictures found on unallocated space did not constitute knowing possession because it is impossible to determine when, why or who downloaded them.

So...it's possible a Best Buy employee could put the image there himself and collect the $500...

4 posted on 01/09/2017 7:09:22 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Geek Squad/others could plant some images or information on your computer so they can later “discover” it for a paycheck. Nice scam.


5 posted on 01/09/2017 7:10:58 PM PST by BipolarBob (I thought money was burning a hole in my pocket but it was just my Samsung Galaxy 7.)
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To: soycd

It doesn’t take a Geek Squader to find a Jihadi who walks into their local FBI office with a gun and announce ISIS is telling them to kill people.

it does take a Keystone Kop to give them their gun back & send them on their way.


6 posted on 01/09/2017 7:13:20 PM PST by gubamyster
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To: a fool in paradise

Yes. And it’s finally coming to light. God bless our new President Donald Trump.

This idiocy will end soon. islam can NOT be allowed to destroy America like it has destroyed every other country it has infiltrated.

No quarter.


7 posted on 01/09/2017 7:16:15 PM PST by soycd
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To: Snickering Hound

I was at a Best Buy in Fort Worth last year and a total stranger approached me and started talking about how Obama needed to be killed. I told him to leave me alone and walked away.
Nut case or Fed instigator, I don’t know.


8 posted on 01/09/2017 7:18:10 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So the FBI is emulating the actions of Russia’s Federal Security Service.


9 posted on 01/09/2017 7:22:02 PM PST by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: soycd

It comes to light each time there is a domestic terrorist attack in America. Within a week of each attack the authorities admit that they’d already been informed of these violent supremacists’ deadly rhetoric.


10 posted on 01/09/2017 7:24:48 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: gubamyster

The only reason that POS got his gun back is because he was colored, islamic and stupid beyond abortion approved.

Sterilize islam first and then africa is that does not stop this insanity.

islam and pinched off wasted child can not be sustained.


11 posted on 01/09/2017 7:25:50 PM PST by soycd
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Geek Squad doesn’t hire anything but the biggest of incompetent dumbasses anyway.


12 posted on 01/09/2017 7:27:50 PM PST by Mr.Unique (The government, by its very nature, cannot give except what it first takes.)
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To: Snickering Hound

So...it’s possible a Best Buy employee could put the image there himself and collect the $500...
= = =

Depending on his level of desperation, it might even be an image of himself.


13 posted on 01/09/2017 7:30:58 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (LOTS of /s)
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To: BipolarBob

Thank you for that angle, in the midst of calling balls and strikes, you rightfully ring the bell for the possibilities of framing American activists.


14 posted on 01/09/2017 7:31:05 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia is the farm team for more Marxists coming.... infinitum.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This oughtta do WONDERS for the bu$ine$$...!


15 posted on 01/09/2017 7:39:57 PM PST by gaijin
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To: BipolarBob; Snickering Hound

Goodness only knows what links my elderly parents may have clicked or files opened over the years.
Should they be investigated or tossed in prison if there is something funky on their machine, too? Good grief.

16 posted on 01/09/2017 7:44:34 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“This Geek Squad member had been paid $500 for digging around in customers’ computers and reporting his findings to the FBI.”

The BIGGER PROBLEM here is that it also gives employees INCENTIVES to load that type of porn on the computers of unsuspecting customers.

That’s why I simply destroy and THROW OUT my computers when they break - I trust NO ONE with my hard drives.


17 posted on 01/09/2017 7:45:27 PM PST by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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Ditto.


18 posted on 01/09/2017 7:47:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: BobL

That will get the FBI nothing, the geek squad are not that good. Maybe get the FBI some higher quality porn then they download at work, that is about it I would think.


19 posted on 01/09/2017 7:48:21 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Too much of the article is “according to James D. Riddet, Rettenmaier’s San Clemente-based defense attorney”.
A balanced article would be nore persuasive.
But more work for the reporters of course.

Glad the def lawyer is pushing it in the courts, but will wait on their decision.


20 posted on 01/09/2017 7:52:41 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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