Tag: GEEKSQUAD

The next time you save child pornography on your hard drive, you probably shouldn't save it under a name like 'KiddiePornXXX.' Doing so, it turns out, may give law enforcement officials the green light to search and seize your hard drive. That's exactly what happened to Corey Beantee Melton, from Alabama, after he took his computer to get repaired at a local Best Buy. When Best Buy's Geek Squad ...

Father Luke Strand thinks it is a great idea to drive around Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in a VW Beetle with stickers that look exactly like those on Best Buy's Geek Squad cars, except for one thing: his stickers read "God Squad." Best Buy didn't find this to be cute, but instead a violation of its trademark -- one that, by precedent, it couldn't treat any differently from any other violation. ...

Let's ignore Best Buy's murfing and endless violations of privacy for the moment, and focus on the "deals" it brazenly offers without resorting to tricks or scams (sort of). First, it was $130 to set up a PS3, a task that even our parents could handle. Then, the company generously gave away free copies of Tweetdeck, which is already free. And recently, an eagle-eyed shopper noticed that Best ...

After suffering through significant delays and bickering developers, Rockstar finally un-holstered 'Red Dead Redemption' this week, six painfully long years after its prequel 'Red Dead Revolver' rode into stores. During that console drought, the number of quality Old West gun-slinging games could fit in a six-gun cylinder, with a couple of chambers to spare. Capitalizing on that geeky ...

Best Buy has already run into some serious trouble with invasions of privacy and seemingly can't stop misleading consumers (and rewarding employees for doing so). Still, even we were taken aback by the brazenness of the above advertisement, which was submitted to Kotaku. That's right, for only $130, the questionably competent and perennially pervy Geek Squad will come to your home and plug your ...

Best Buy's tech-help Geek Squad are letting their badges go to their head, says the Daily Record. New Jersey police arrested 25-year-old Jay Mora last week for impersonating a police officer and for sexual assault. Apparently, Mora was meeting an unidentified woman at a hotel to "engage in a sex-for-money transaction." Once in the room together, Mora identified himself as a police officer by ...

Last week, in the midst of the current Twitter media frenzy (please, please, never let us hear Barbara WaWa or Oprah mention Twitter again), several news outlets glamorized the appearance of the world's oldest Twitterer, 104-year-old Ivy Bean. According to the UK TechCrunch, the reporters should have done a little more actual reporting. The entire charade appears to have been a publicity stunt ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2008/09/24/macguyver-i-cant-even-log-on-to-a-computer-without-getting-hu/'; In a world gone digital... who will save us from the massive crowd of evil-yet-easily-overpowered henchmen lurking around every corner of the Internet? It certainly WON'T be 'MacGyver's' Richard Dean Anderson or the perennially pony-tailed Steven Seagal. As they both ...

On Monday, Best Buy tech-help division Geek Squad launched its new Black Tie Protection service, which covers home theater, mobile tech, gadgets, and more, in addition to computers. Naturally, the electronics retailer decided that it needed some star power to kick off its new product, so it invited three celebrity "icons of protection": Tanya Roberts of 'Charlie's Angels' and 'That '70s Show', ...

Best Buy's Geek Squad isn't exactly known for respecting people's property. This time, however, instead of us catching them, they caught a guy with child porn. A middle school custodian sent in a hard drive back in August of 2007 to recover lost data. Upon performing their usual search (and invasion of personal privacy), the Geek Squadders at a Twin Cities location found over 800 images of young ...

Perhaps Best Buy should have named its computer diagnostic and repair division Perv Squad. Following April's incident in which one of its Geek Squad technicians was caught videotaping a customer while she showered, a second employee has now been videoed copying porn files from a customer's computer onto his own drive. The video was captured as part of a sting operation run by the Web site, The ...

When slapping screens and punching keyboards fail, Best Buy's Geek Squad is there to fix America's computer-related woes (or, to sneak a peek at America in the shower). Though Geek Squad units are stationed inside of Best Buy stores throughout our great land, a new Geek headquarters has just opened up in Louisville, Kentucky. The brand new 165,000 square-foot facility, dubbed Geek Squad City, ...

Sarah Vasquez of Pomona, CA, needed help getting her computer fixed. But when Hao Kuo Chi of Best Buy's Geek Squad arrived at her door, he helped himself to a peek at Vasquez in the buff. Chi waited until Vasquez entered the shower, at which point he allegedly slithered into the bathroom with his camera phone, hit the record button and slithered out. When Vasquez emerged from the shower, she ...