Best Buy Geek Squad Employees Were Paid by FBI As Informants, Documents Suggest

[Oneironaut]

61. This is awful for a variety of reasons.

A - Best Buy employees aren't trained to deal with child porn, so mistakes might be made that compromise the trial, or cause innocent people to get arrested for having a picture of their own baby in a bathtub, or something like that.

B - Privacy (yes, even if the person is a pedophile - the FBI doing this is not ok)

C - If I understand correctly, every "bust" nets the employee $500? Um - Nobody thinks that could end horribly?

I also hate how pedophiles can be used as a boogeyman to get people to throw their rights away. Yes, everybody knows that pedophiles are horrible people who should be in jail. That doesn't mean the FBI should be able to do whatever they want to find them.

With that being said, I would never use Geek Squad, as they probably find random "viruses" on your machine, and charge you $200 to "remove" them. They're only slightly more trustworthy than the Indian guy from Microsoft who calls you to tell you that your computer has a virus. Find someone who has moderate computer knowledge instead to fix it for you. Most of what the Geek squad does is basic stuff that isn't even worth paying for.