Geek Squad catches man with child porn on computer

[Don]

[quote=TCPalm.com News Story]
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/jan/27/geek-squad-catches-man-child-porn-computer/

Geek Squad catches man with child porn on computer
BY JASON SCHULTZ Palm Beach Post
Tuesday, January 27, 2009


WELLINGTON, Fla.

[RugerShooter]

Could be the geeksquad kid was looking for virus files that he had picked up off of limewire when he came across these filenames that suggested child porn. Or maybe he was just looking for porn on the computer to satisfy himself. Anyway I hope this guy gets everything he deserves.

[Sombeech]

Geek Squad had a case against them about 2 years ago for copying private files to a thumb drive.

The owner of the computer put a screencapture logger on the PC, and then turned it over to Geek Squad. (There's a post about this somewhere here, with the video)

The owner intentionally put a folder on the desktop called "Vacation Pictures", and you could see the Geek Squad guy open up the folder, rummage through some bikini shots, and then copy them to his thumb drive.

A big shakedown at Geek Squad by Best Buy soon followed.

[DiscGo]

In Texas you are required to have a private investigator's license just to make sure you know what to do if you come across child pornography.

[CrazyFinn]

Makes me think you shouldn't keep sensitive info on your computer at all. Maybe on a thumb drive. ie: accounts, etc. Not porn :ne_nau:

You never know when your computer will crash and you need it fixed. Myself, I do my own repairs, new build, etc. so no one else has access.

[JP]

So, Geek Squad was looking for porn and inadvertently found that :lol8:

[KapitanSparrow]

Makes me think you shouldn't keep sensitive info on your computer at all. Maybe on a thumb drive. ie: accounts, etc. Not porn :ne_nau:


That is ridiculoususus! I keep my stuff, but it's legal :haha:

[denaliguide]

shouldn't there be something like "geek/client privledge"?

[DiscGo]

shouldn't there be something like "geek/client privilege"?

There have been laws put place in most states for just the opposite. Our Government is trying to turn everyone against each other and have us all police ourselves.

[Deathcricket]

I've intentionally done scans on PC's that come in for music (search *.*mp3). Then uploaded any found in it to a company shared drive which was used by the entire IT dept. I've no doubt that the best buy guy was doing something similar for porn.

That being said, the guy will easily evade these charges. One, when a pc boots all by itself, it overwrites files to it's own hard drive. Therefore the data is different than when it was first siezed and can be considered "tampered with" in any court of law. The only way to properly pursue charges is to grab the HD and plug it into a SCSI controller card as a slave with no write privileges. That is the only way to guarantee your data has not been tampered with. Hopefully they knew this ahead of time and did not start the pc up.

Second, even though the porn is found on his machine there is "reasonable" doubt it could have been put there by someone else. you have to prove he had exclusive access to the machine and no trojans inadvertently set him up as a file server or being use for DOS attacks.

Third, the knowledge was obtained by a third source, without proper cause. I'm not sure how the laws regarding search warrants and probable cause are set up though. I could be wrong on this. Maybe Scott can chime in on that.

The only real justice is his family and neighbors will now know what a POS he is. I'm hoping hell has a special place for people like this. I'd send him there quicker if I had the resources.

[James_B_Wads2000]

Third, the knowledge was obtained by a third source, without proper cause. I'm not sure how the laws regarding search warrants and probable cause are set up though. I could be wrong on this. Maybe Scott can chime in on that.

Yeah how is a Geek Squad looking for possible bad file name count for probable cause? I guess using the plumber analogy if he was rummaging through the closets and found a dead body, the plumber would tell the police who would investigate. But if the police came to the home and the owner didn

[James_B_Wads2000]

Geek Squad had a case against them about 2 years ago for copying private files to a thumb drive.

The owner of the computer put a screencapture logger on the PC, and then turned it over to Geek Squad. (There's a post about this somewhere here, with the video)


http://www.bogley.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9441&highlight=geek+squad

[trackrunner]

[quote=James_B_Wads2000]

If Geek Squad told the police wouldn

[James_B_Wads2000]

You are probably right. That sounds logical.


James