Exposed: Repair Shops Hack Your Laptops

alexhull24 said:
Sounds like you're just as bad tbh. I don't have the urge to pry into other people's lives by going through their files. I hope your only achievement is making it onto my ignore list, and not into a position of trust.
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If you wish to place me on your ignore list you go right ahead.

I was only stating a fact, humans are by nature, inquisitive, nosey, curious etc.
Be it for good or bad reasons, that is the way we are, so it is no suprise that given the opportunity to snoop into peoples computers, a large majority would weather they admit it or not.

If you believe it is a few that is up to you.
 
lol yup agreed.. as earlier stated though, there's a big difference between that and trying to hack into their online banking. Although I wonder, would he actually have done anything with the account? Might have just been an extension of the same curiosity/nosiness..
 
I'm surprised nobody has noticed this

including some of our researcher in her bikini.
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And put the pics up in this biyatch yet!



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In seriousness though, I fix PCs in my spare time and have a regular customer base. I would never (or have ever) browsed their files or folders within the /users/ directory unless they've instructed me to backup their data and I just so happen to spot something like my old workmate's PC where he disguised pr0n videos in the MP3 folder that I was working from.

The crazy f00 !
 
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Greebo said:
Encryption. I have never trusted anybody else with my computers otherwise.
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I had one or two customers who encrypted their data, but when it came to data recovery time they lost everything and the customers who didn't encrypt lost nothing. Depends what you're trying to hide really.

Interesting article in the fact that they were obviously trying to set someone up. Maybe I was too honest but I'd definitely have spotted a program running in the background taking pictures of me and highlighted it to the client as suspect.
 
Jonny69 said:
I had one or two customers who encrypted their data, but when it came to data recovery time they lost everything and the customers who didn't encrypt lost nothing. Depends what you're trying to hide really.

Interesting article in the fact that they were obviously trying to set someone up. Maybe I was too honest but I'd definitely have spotted a program running in the background taking pictures of me and highlighted it to the client as suspect.
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Hiding nothing but personal stuff. But I back up daily so if you lost my data I wouldn't be bothered.
 
Kodiak said:
Hang on.
Wasnt the techies finding child porn on Gary Glitter's HDD how he got caught?
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Yep. It's a funny thing really. Everyone first knew how Glitter is a paedophile, but nobody considers the fact that they only found out because of technicians snooping around where they shouldn't have been.
 
PiKe said:
Just make your tagline "I won't copy off your nude pictures, honest".
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The thing is, sometimes it's practically in your face! :p I fixed some womans laptop, there was very little wrong with it yet there was a pic on the desktop of her with her jubblies out! :eek:
 
This is hardly news :) Anyone could have told them that, hell I would have for the price of a bacon buttie.
 
moremoney said:
If you wish to place me on your ignore list you go right ahead.

I was only stating a fact, humans are by nature, inquisitive, nosey, curious etc.
Be it for good or bad reasons, that is the way we are, so it is no suprise that given the opportunity to snoop into peoples computers, a large majority would weather they admit it or not.

If you believe it is a few that is up to you.
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Yes, humans are inquisitive and would like to look at peoples’ secrets but when you are a customer going to a trained individual you, as a customer, would expect a certain degree of professionalism from the trained "professional" and for them to not go through your documents.
 
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