If our computer has died, and we need to do a retrieval, who do you recommend we take it to (who won’t pry), and how is the actual retrieval done (if our computer is dead)?
It isn’t so much someone prying, it’s the fact that once you physically turn the machine over to a 3rd party, such as the Geek Squad, you voluntarily give up your right to privacy.
I would suggest not having anything illegal on your computer, and if you have things on there yo want to keep private encrypt them.
Amazing, in a lot of child porn cases, the “collectors” don’t even change the names of the files to something innocent sounding. I bet that was the case w/ the janitor in the article.
Though, I read somewhere, can’t remember where, the Geek Squad is known for searching for porn on computers brought in for service. They especially are looking for the more unique homemade kind, not the stuff you can find in the back-room at the video store. Appears they like to trade it among themselves.
Got into an interesting discussion in class about the possibility of a law that would compel a computer repair man to report child porn to the authorities much as the law that educators & medical personnel having to report suspected child abuse.
I know a lot of people posting here feel that the Geek Squad was in the wrong for violating the janitor’s privacy, but the stories about child porn cases that we heard about in my class were sickening. In fact, while I was taking the class last Fall, an adjunct at the school (in a different department) got arrested in a child exploitation sting where he flew to Detroit to meet a woman (who was really an FBI agent) because she had agreed to let him have sex w/ her two kids ages 3!!! and 5!!! During part of their online chat, this guy tells the agent about a trip to China he had made the year before where he had a sexual encounter w/ a 14 year old girl and her 8 year old sister.
There are a lot of really sick, sick individuals out there!