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Re:FBI Used Best Buy's Geek Squad to Increase Secret Public ... by Turing_Machine on Friday March 10, 2017 @04:38PM (#13842361)
Right. Accidentally finding something illegal is one thing.

Deliberately snooping every file on every computer that enters the shop is quite another.

Given the $500 reward, I suspect the latter situation is closer to the case.

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Re:FBI Used Best Buy's Geek Squad to Increase Secret Public ... by ribosometronome on Friday March 10, 2017 @06:18PM (#13842997)
The article seems to indicate that not only were they poking around but they were recovering deleted files.

Good that they may have caught this fellow -- especially given his profession -- but that's probably rather horrifying for a significant portion of other people who brought their computers in for repair.

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Re:FBI Used Best Buy's Geek Squad to Increase Secret Public ... by SoylentYellow on Friday March 10, 2017 @06:24PM (#13843027)
It is even worse in the article. Geek Squad employees were snooping into unallocated disk space to try to find evidence.
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