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Milfs Mortified By Urban Outfitters' Bawdry Books
Marci Milfs was appalled to see risque books being sold at her local Urban Outfitters store in Lynwood, Washington. According to The Herald, she was out clothes-shopping with her son when she came across the racy books. The titles included, "Pornogami: A Guide to the Ancient Art of Paper-Folding for Adults," a how-to for making anatomically correct paper artwork and "Porn for Women," a photo book showing men doing housework. Details, inside... More »
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$50k Porn-Pilfering Lawsuits Opens With Geek Squad Employee Confession
The Star Tribune reports a woman is suing Best Buy for $50,000 after the Best Buy/Geek Squad repair service stole her naked photos from her computer, shared them with other Geek Squad agents, and even copied them onto the hard drives of other customers (this is hardly the first time Geek Squad has been caught stealing porn from customer's computers). William E. Giffels admitted in a written statement that he copied Kaylee Hall's nude photos from her computer onto his personal flash drive. On this drive, he also kept the most up-to-date version of the Geek Squad diagnostic tools and told other agents to copy from it. Then other Geek Squad made CD copies of the drive and installed the tools, along with Kaylee's photos, onto other customers' computers in the Traverse City, Michigan area. Inside, Giffels's written confession... More »
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Charter Cable Gives Free Porn To The Mentally Handicapped
Consumerist Forums reader "1gunit" discovered free porn while channel surfing on his new HDTV. It began when a strange program appeared that started to automatically fast forward itself through what was some presumably boring dialogue. When the program began to play at normal speed, "1gunit" realized he was watching someone else's "On Demand" porn. How did this happen? His letter, inside... More »
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Nickelodeon Is Channel 33, Comcast Adult On Demand Is 333
Michael writes in with an unfortunate coincidence:I discovered last night that my Comcast Adult on Demand channel is 333. Easy buttons for a child to accidently press, particularly when Nickelodeon is 33. That's right, one extra push, and my five year old gets the Playboy listings instead of Spongebob.It's nice that you have such a good sense of humor about it. We imagine that eventually Comcast is bound to get some calls from parents who aren't so pleasant to deal with. More »
Yeah, I blocked Adult on Demand, but I only found it in the first place because I was searching the hinterlands of Showtime en español.
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Geek Squad Feels "Unfairly Targeted" By Consumerist Expose
When personal finance magazine Kiplinger asked the Geek Squad about our video that caught one of their technicians stealing porn from our harddrive (peeping tomism, hardly limited to Geek Squad, is just as rampant in the computer repair industry as the photo developing industry), an unidentified Geek Squad spokeswoman ingenuously responded, "We have been the target of a blog that prefers to focus on the exceptions to our service and not the overall, vast majority of successful services we provide to clients." That's like saying dirt is unfairly targeted by a broom. Where there's a valid complaint, we'll post. Where there's a consumer whose rights aren't respected, we will defend. We don't have a vendetta against the Geek Squad, or any other company. We have a vendetta against bad customer service. That's our bottom line. After the jump, the original undercover video...
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"Family Friendly" Movie Censors Were Running Porn Business
According to the Provo, UT Daily Herald the founder of "Flix Club" a defunct company that edited swearing and nudity from films and resold them as "family friendly' versions, has been arrested on charges that he and another man paid two 14-year-old girls for sex. Police also said that the men may have been using the "family friendly" video business as a front for producing porn. More »
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Best Buy Busts Middle-school Janitor For Having Child Porn
Best Buy's Geek Squad tech repair service helped bust a middle-school custodian for having child porn on his hard-drive. Fox9 reports:
Geek Squad employees viewed over 800 images contained in a folder titled XXXYOUNGS. The images featured young girls believed to be between the ages of 7 and 15. In some of the pictures the children were nude; in others, they were engaged in sexual acts with adult males.You would think they could stop after the first couple or so. Pedophiles should die a thousand deaths, but no doubt police appreciate that some tech services are now performing warrantless searches of citizen's hard drives for them.
Middle School Employee Charged with Child Pornography Possession [FOX9] (Thanks to Nick!)
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Delete Your Porns: Court Says You Have No Right To Privacy When Your Computer Is Repaired
Evidence uncovered by retail store technicians (i.e. kiddie porn), is legally admissible as evidence in court because, "If a person is aware of, or freely grants to a third party, potential access to his computer contents, he has knowingly exposed the contents of his computer to the public and has lost any reasonable expectation of privacy in those contents...," the Superior Court of Pennsylvania ruled December 5th. The case hinged on the question of whether kiddie porn a Circuit City tech found could be admitted as evidence, overturning a lower court's decision. The Superior Court of PA also referred to codecs, computer video compression and decompression software, as "code X."
Police Blotter: Can Circuit City techs legally peruse files? [ZDNET]
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Circuit City Also Steals Porn From Your Computer
Stealing porn from customer's computers isn't just for Best Buy, one reader reports they're doing it at Circuit City, too. He writes:I wanted to write in about my recent experience with employment at circuit city. I work at a circuit city in Colorado, I was recently hired as holiday help. I was hired on as firedog, but only got the position for a few days, while I was at the post I got a standard firedog USB flash drive as a part of my job, it belonged to my supervisor. It was apparent he had wiped it before he gave it to me, which made me rather suspicious that he wouldn't leave the standard firedog tools on there...More »
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Gift Idea: Porn Star's Old Breast Implants (Autographed)
Mary Carey recently had her crappy 36-D implants replaced with a more suitable set of all-weather steel belted 36-DDDs, and "while under anesthesia she realized [the old implants] could be used to raise money for breast cancer research." Yes, anesthesia does crazy things like that, we hear. She's auctioning them off on eBay (up to $210 as of noon today). More »
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Best Buy Porn Thief Inquisitions Revealed
After reading "How Geek Squad Investigated Its Own Porn Thieves," another fired Geek Squad tech has chimed in to tell us how the internal witch hunt for porn thieves proceeded.
I had worked for Geek Squad for over a year, and Best Buy a year and a half before that and was recently let go. Back when they started scanning computers, they said they found downloaded music and movies on our machine and we were to send them the hard drives. So we boxed them up and sent them out.More »A month or so later the interrogations happened. We all had our turn, and when it was mine, I walked into a room with the table pushed against the wall and two chairs in the middle of the room sitting two feet apart with nothing in between.
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Man Gets 11 Years After Geek Squad Reports Child Porn On His Computer
A man got 135 months in jail and a $10,000 fine after Geek Squad reported the computer he brought in for servicing had child pornography on it.
Just to make sure there's no other child pornographers out there, Geek Squad will continue to scour the hard drives of its customers for salacious images and video, helping itself to whatever media it fancies as a sort of automatic gratuity for the vigilante services it provides to the community.
Geek Squad trip lands child porn "trafficker" in slammer for 10 years [ArsTechnica] (Thanks to Hassan!)
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Best Buy's Geek Squad Scours Stores In Person For Stolen Porn N' Stuff
In addition to having Best Buy Geeks Squad locations hook up store computers to headquarters to check for porn and music stolen from customer's computers, and pirated software, they're also sending "audit teams" to investigate hard-drives at the stores in-person, reports an insider.
Geek Squad has also enacted a new "Open and Honest" policy, encouraging Geeks to step forward and report on employees found violating customer's privacy and such, along with a special email address and phone number for anonymously reporting concerns. Furthermore, the use of personal flash drives has been strictly forbidden.
Says the tipster, "I'm guessing this is due to the recent outbreaks of Geek Squad privacy issues."
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Best Buy Making All Service Departments Geek Squadified
If you love the great porn-stealing and privacy-invading services currently offered by Geek Squad's in-store and in-home tech support, have cheer: Best Buy is rebranding all its service departments into Geek Squads, according to an inside source. They're testing it out in the New York metro area in preparation for a possible nation-wide rollout.
Of the move, a former employee writes...
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Best Buy is scanning Geek Squad computers for signs of porn infestation, as part of their continuing witch hunt. According to reports from four different Geek Squad employees, an edict was issued from corporate requiring precincts to connect every computer in every precinct to Agent Johnny Utah.
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Best Buy Systemically Searching Geek Squad Precincts For Porn
Best Buy is scanning Geek Squad computers for signs of porn infestation, as part of their continuing witch hunt. According to reports from four different Geek Squad employees, an edict was issued from corporate requiring precincts to connect every computer in every precinct to Agent Johnny Utah.
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Girl Whose Photo Was Stolen And Used For Porn DVD Sues
Remember Lara, whose self-portrait was stolen from deviantART and used as the cover of a porn DVD? Yeah, she's suing the shady pornographers. More »
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