• Bonehead@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Of course you did. You’re not handing your device over to Best Buy, you’re handing it over to Jimmy on the Geek Squad who is quiet and a bit weird. And he loves to snoop into other people’s phones. Not for identity theft or reselling naughty pictures, but simply for the fun of snooping on other people.

    Backup your device and wipe all of your data before handing a phone over to anyone else. It’s just safer that way.

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    Absolutely not surprised. I’ve had multiple friends that worked Geek Squad. All of them have admitted to snooping at least once and most have said their coworkers did it constantly.

    Don’t take your computer to Geek Squad, folks. They’re all untrained highschoolers following a script anyways

  • FBI offers a bounty to technicians who report incriminating evidence, so yeah, when you take your repair tickes to a large service, you can expect this.

    Local services depend on word of mouth so they might be more respectful, but only because they are incentivized to not let rumors of their snooping get out.

    Still, surveillance staff routinely pass saucy and gross pics all over their office and we only hope they don’t dump them on the internet like high-school students

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    1 year ago

    u r dumb enough to let someone take advantage of your naivety in some topic out there, tech nerd.

    that’s just how shit works, remember it.