Based on a ten-page (!) confession by a former Geek Squad member in which he wrote that Geek Squad agents scour your computer for those porn and personal pictures and videos and copy them onto their thumb drives, Consumerist set up a string operation in which they rigged a computer to record all user activity and brought it in to a number of Best Buy stores to have Geek Squad install iTunes on it.
They report:
We took it to around a dozen Best Buy Geek Squads and asked them to perform simple tasks, like installing iTunes. Most places were fine, sometimes doing the job right on the counter, sometimes even for free.
Click here to see their blog entry and (work-safe) video, and be sure to read these follow-up articles:
- Why We’re Not Telling Geek Squad CEO Which Agent Stole The Porn
- How To Make Your Computer Catch People Stealing Your Porn
There remains one question that I’m sure a lot of guys are asking: Where’d they get that desktop wallpaper image, and could they please share it?
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How do they know it was really a Geek Squad person? Someone could have just used the geek squad tools and did it themselves and framed the geeks. Plus, these girls are nowhere near hot.