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- Lanistils, on 10/12/2007, -8/+255I remember a guy brought in his computer to our store and they had to call the cops when he wanted them to back up his child porno folder.
- Alphabet, on 10/12/2007, -4/+236my friend works at geek squad. He told me of a story where a hot girl and her father walked in to get their computer fixed. The agents found the pics of her and her boyfriend having sex and saved it. When she came back later with her dad, one of the agents said "Alright, we backed up everything for you for," and then he glanced at the girl and said "everything..." At that point, the girl got bright red in the face and just wanted to get out of there.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+170Digg just plain obsesses over Geek Squad stories
- weeeeeeee, on 10/12/2007, -2/+150Yea. I can't really blame them. I look for porn every place I go.
- quaunaut, on 10/12/2007, -5/+131Whats with internet users today? What happened to the old days where people traded whatever porn they got to everyone they knew for free?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+116Pics or it didn't happen
- oMeSSiaHo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+114When a customer brings his computer in and his wallpaper is his girlfriends ***** covered in cum WTF am I supposed to do?! Am I supposed to look away when I am doing work?
- lpmiller, on 10/12/2007, -2/+79collecting personal porn is part of the service, and frankly a perk of the job. That's like complaining about cops and donuts.
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/12/2007, -7/+83The geek squad member profile has reached a new low. Not even skilled enough to find their own p0rn.
- Nerfdude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+74back around 2001, a friend of mine worked for Best Buy. this was before they had Geek Squad handling all their technology-related installs, upgrades, and repairs. he took me into the back room where they did all of their customer PC work, and they had a common computer with a half dozen USB hard drives attached to it, filled to the brim with porn, movies, and mp3's. whenever ANYBODY dropped off a computer, they'd do whatever was needed on it, then they'd hunt down all of its media and copy it over. every employee in the store knew about it, and nobody cared.
- MadMaxx426, on 10/12/2007, -3/+64People actually use the geek squad?
- Awperator, on 10/12/2007, -3/+62Lol this is fantastic from the article:
"If there were a competition between a Playboy editor, a photo lab technician, and a voyeur for the person who has seen the most random pictures of naked people... the only way any of them would win is if the Geek Squad agent was late to the contest."
I was chuckling for a while there. - mtvkilledusall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+59That happened at my store too when i worked there 5 years ago or so.
First the cops came and held him in the office, then the FBI came in, or at least some guys in black suits.
He had over 10 gigs, which at the time was huge in comparison to hard drives. - ExSlashdotter, on 10/12/2007, -9/+65Who says "wipe" instead of reformat?
I do. Who am I? I'm the network admin for a $13B corporation (thats a B, not an M)
WTF does choice of words have to do with anything? I say "wipe" instead of reformat. I may even say "ghost the drive" when something other than the Norton Ghost application. You might even hear me say "bounce a machine" instead of "reboot a server". The list goes on.
God forbid, I might even use 'photoshop' as a verb. Get a ***** life. - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+59[quote]happened to look at the file names as the computer was being scanned at some point in time and noticed that the names seemed umm well disgusting.[/quote]
No, you fools! Mr. Bukakke is the name of my boss--he's Japanese! We were working on an account for the Mayo Clinic! We booked Andy Dick to do a sock puppet and magic show for the kids! Lolita was the name of his assistant! The goat was for the magic show, I swear!
bukakke_with_kids.jpg
mayo_little_girl_and_Dick.jpg
dick_lollipop.jpg
lolita_goat_magic.wmv - VeritasAequitas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+55When I was working at Geek Squad we had a guy come in for something like a virus removal and child porn was found on his computer by accident. one of my co-workers happened to look at the file names as the computer was being scanned at some point in time and noticed that the names seemed umm well disgusting. so he told our supervisor who told the GM the looked and called the cops on him. We didn't make a habit of going through peoples stuff if we didn't need to though. It was totally dumb luck it got noticed. I for one hate Best Buy for what they did to Geek Squad. I'm from MN where they both started. though I do miss the guys from my bench. Good bunch of guys.
- dagr8tim, on 10/12/2007, -9/+60I'm inside ur computer, stealing ur porn....
- SlackerCSB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+51Well, alrighty then.....
- Eccles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42Pics or it... oh never mind.
- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+41"Now why would you keep your porn collection on the same hard drive your OS is in? You can buy another hard drive cheap enough and find free encryption software so when you need to take your PC to the tech you just remove that hard drive with all the "sensitive" info on it."
people who know how to do that don't go to geek squad - xyberspam, on 10/12/2007, -15/+56It's not just the Geek Squad that looks for porn on your PC, mankind is naturally curious. How many times have you been in a friend's house and looked in their medicine cabinet or snooped elsewhere. PC's offer a chance for those with the knowledge and opportunity to by the ultimate voyeur.
- techsmack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41Used to work in a computer repair shop, where as we didn't snag any photos, it was apparent when people had them, as they didn't seem to give any thought on hiding their personal, or downloaded porn at all.
When I worked at a GameStop we also had a PSP traded in with a memory card with about 25 pics of the guy's girlfriend, or date very nude and very XXX. I seriously doubt that the GeekSquad is alone at all :D - ichbinladen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42Free porn is the best porn.
- ExSlashdotter, on 10/12/2007, -2/+36anybody who understands the concept of a disk image (much less an encrypted one) won't be needing Geek Squad to fix their tech support issue.
Hence the problem, because 90% of the population falls under said demographic. - enicholas, on 10/12/2007, -6/+40@xyberspam: Ummm... never. You actually snoop through people's houses?
- rilindo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34If you ever have to take your PC/Mac to a technician, do the same thing you would with a car : don't leave anything valuable (or in some cases, incriminating) in it.
- cpuenvy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Neighborhood geeks are the best.
- usrlocalbin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33heh...This was the highlight of our day at CompUSA back in those days.
The best time was when a dude from MTV's Real World brought his laptop in for service.
This was back in 2000 or around there, I can't remember the dude's name but he was the one token black guy on the show at the time. My boss worked on his computer and found some videos.
I'll just say that this dude liked his porn with a little human feces.....
*shudder* - ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33Seriously, who HASN'T backed up other people's porn?
- 2smooth4u, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31Does "perk" have a double meaning here?
- catalysis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31100-300% cheaper? So they actually pay you to take the TV?
- 1KrazyKorean, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28lol, well it looks like the changed the title a bit since I posted it, from Porn to Nudie =)
- TimDigg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Empornium
PureTNA
BootyTorrents
Usenet anyone?
Who the hell is paying for porn? - vertinox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Although, sometimes you have to wonder if they guys had bot nets and FTPs setup on their computers without knowledge.
I mean seriously... How dumb can you really be to take a computer with highly illegal material on it to a store? Umm... Don't answer that. - DangerMouse9, on 10/12/2007, -5/+29"turn it stupid"
You mean install Windows Vista on it? - Homerr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23@quaunaut
What if you take your computer in and it has MORE porn on afterwards? Yeah, that'd be cool. - dosterm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23@cpuenvy
You extorted a pedophile? I hope you turned them in afterwards. - cweinrich, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Like they dont do it either? :P
- astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22A group of *ahem* so called PC techs that Best Buy has marketed to fix PCs. In reality they tend to over price, rip off, and sometimes break your PC. In reality faulty $2.00 cable replacement turns into a $100 mobo replacement all due to what Best Buy wants to make off your PC troubles.
- kcpwnsgman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21@timdigg
bittorrent porn is too slow, I'm usually done before it can download... - AnotherThought, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21hope your slut folder contains only pictures
b/c if you claim that 2GB folder contains any vid's i'd dugg you down as inaccurate >:)
i mean no one's vid folder can be that small.. right? - 2smooth4u, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19I remember when I worked at Best Buy from 02-03 and when we were repairing computers you'd see everyone all of the sudden gather around a single pc.....I can't tell you how many DVDs were burned of people's "personal files." I can't say I didn't look, but I didn't dare try to copy the stuff due to not wanting the repricusions of getting caught.
- harusp3x, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25I just sent in my application :)
- Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Not only are you an elitist *****, you're false sense of superiority is built on a completely false deduction. Exhibit A:
'wipe
(1) To completely erase data from memory or the hard disk.'
http://www.answers.com/wipe&r=67
Exhibit B:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_wiping
Now Shutup. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Not alone at all. I worked in my university's help desk for 2 years and the number of girls who left nekkid pictures of themselves on the computer and then left the "Scroll through my picture folders" screensaver up was astounding.
- plnegative1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23SHAME HIM: DIGG HIS COMMENT!!
- Misanthrope, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20It's also something you do to a counter top. Or you can "wipe that stupid look off your ***** face". Or you can "Wipe his memory!".
Or you can wipe a ***** hard drive. The word actually has multiple uses, as do most words!
Have you ever even seen a computer?? You don't have to use the words that you learned in your text book.
And you have the nerve to call others retards. I hate you. - Continuum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18so they won't find your dad's porn stash?
- catalysis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18best buy sux
- zuhalter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15same reason why an auto-mechanic wouldn't pay another auto-mechanic to fix his car
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