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Best Buy's Geek Squad searched customer computers for the FBI
CBS NEWS ^ | March 7, 2018

Posted on 03/07/2018 9:47:13 PM PST by EinNYC

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Well. Based on this, I don't think I'll be buying anything from Best Buy. Not that I've purchased much from them over the years, but this is absolutely horrible. Just floors me.
1 posted on 03/07/2018 9:47:13 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

I agree. If kiddie porn turned up in routine computer repair, it’s one thing. But to get paid by the state for digging around in search of it is despicable.

I worked for major photofinishing companies for years and occasionally came across kiddie porn. The police were notified and that was the end of our involvement.


2 posted on 03/07/2018 9:55:23 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: EinNYC

15 will get you $20.


3 posted on 03/07/2018 10:02:59 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: EinNYC

"...kiddie porn..."


One wonders how many “enemies of the Clintons and the 0bamas” remarkably had kiddie porn automagically appear on their computers when it was brought-in for an unrelated repair?

4 posted on 03/07/2018 10:04:18 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: EinNYC

Since Best Buy was working as an agent of the FBI they must follow all procedural rules of evidence gathering. Fruit from the poisoned tree.


5 posted on 03/07/2018 10:07:34 PM PST by LukeL
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How much was the Geek Squad paid for "finding" kiddie porn on computers brought in for repair?

What an idiotic business decision by Best Buy. Who will trust them now?

6 posted on 03/07/2018 10:27:29 PM PST by TChad (Leftthink: Reality is sadly out of touch with the higher truth.)
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To: EinNYC

In the mid 80’s worked for a Unix shop. If there is anything I’m going to say it’s this: Erase and scrub your hard drives before sending them in. If you’re sending it in for data recovery then you’re SOL.

If it’s terribly important and sensitive and you simply must have it recovered you have them do the recovery while you’re watching them.


7 posted on 03/07/2018 10:29:42 PM PST by Fhios (Mr. Magoo, where are you?)
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To: EinNYC

What would happen if an earth shattering, slam dunk national security case fell into the lap of the FBI?!...Oh, I forgot, it did happen with Hillary Clinton.


8 posted on 03/07/2018 10:53:30 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: EinNYC

Knowing the corruption that infests today’s FBI, I would not be the least surprised the FBI targeted people for destruction, then paid Best Buy to plant child porn “evidence”.


9 posted on 03/07/2018 11:33:12 PM PST by Flick Lives
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To: Fhios

Early on when I started using computers I had a problem and needed a recovery of my hard drive. The guy who recovered it for me made some comments about my taxes. He had no clue but hinted he thought I had done something wrong, I hadn’t. I was PO’ed. I’ve never taken another computer for repair.


10 posted on 03/08/2018 12:14:24 AM PST by tiki
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To: EinNYC

When I first heard about Best Buy looking through systems for child porn a few years ago, I thought how horrible for them to do that. Then I gave it more thought and figured they did it to cover themselves in case someone who has it on his system and gets nailed would claim it was actually a tech at Best Buy who put it there during the repair. I know there would be other evidence countering that, but it would be a major headache nonetheless for Best Buy. Of course, throwing the FBI in the mix makes it a complete mess.


11 posted on 03/08/2018 12:17:45 AM PST by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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And yet, Best Buy last year canceled their arrangement with Kaspersky Labs claiming they are scanning computers for the KGB.

-PJ

12 posted on 03/08/2018 12:20:43 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: EinNYC

I would buy a new computer before I would let any stranger mess with my computer.

But FU, Best Lie, you will never get another penny from me.


13 posted on 03/08/2018 12:28:20 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: EinNYC

It’s hard to believe that ANYONE on this site would let the Geek Squad lay a hand on their computers. If the thing breaks, buy a new one and destroy the hard drive.


14 posted on 03/08/2018 12:49:05 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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And yet, Best Buy last year canceled their arrangement with Kaspersky Labs claiming they are scanning computers for the KGB.

Would Eugene do that?


Evgeny Kaspersky [2011]

Actually, better he than Best Buy!

What FBI knows can get you indicted. What KGB knows is what KGB knows (unless you have a high clearance that KGB knows about — then you are well and truly F-ed).

15 posted on 03/08/2018 12:54:51 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: EinNYC

I read that Sessions is “seriously”considering a second Special Council. Really? He is “serious”? I bet that has Hitlery shaking in her high heels....not. Most smart people stopped taking Session “seriously” a long time ago. I do not trust him for a second. It is just fodder to feed us common folk. If he really was “serious” he would have just did it and not threaten to do it. The man is a weasel and a snake.


16 posted on 03/08/2018 2:00:28 AM PST by TonyM (UPS)
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To: EinNYC

The same FIB that didn’t want to examine Hillary’s server or the DNC’s allegedly hacked system.


17 posted on 03/08/2018 2:17:51 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Wear an orange pin to mourn the victims of the Tide Pods Challenge.)
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To: sparklite2

Innocent pictures of your own young kids in the bath etc have been deemed kiddie porn.

Keep your backups up to date and NEVER give your storage hard drive to anyone. If the unit goes in for repair then pull the hard drive. They are cheaper than being deemed a pornographer - which will ruin you life. If you cannot pull the hard drive/storage device scrap the unit with gunfire. If you are tech savvy enough to wipe the device do it, in spades. Oh and the above goes for units passing out of your control.


18 posted on 03/08/2018 2:26:11 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (We need common sense FBI reform.)
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To: EinNYC

So the FBI unconstitionally violates the privacy of unwitting private citizens and uses “false and misleading statements” to obtain a warrant. Do I detect a pattern here?


19 posted on 03/08/2018 2:35:37 AM PST by Moonlighter
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To: a fool in paradise

According to Hannity, the FBI did want to investigate the DNC hack but the DNC refused access to their computers?


20 posted on 03/08/2018 2:39:56 AM PST by Moonlighter
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