[HN Gopher] Thinking about taking your computer to the repair sh...
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       Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be afraid
        
       Author : adrian_mrd
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2022-11-22 21:47 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | h2odragon wrote:
       | "I forgot to delete my folder with the 20mb of horse porn before
       | I dropped my computer off. When i got it back it was 80GB."
       | 
       | One of those customer testimonials a place should advertise on.
        
       | nradov wrote:
       | Noted management consult Nathan Fielder had an excellent idea to
       | fix the computer repair business by hiring only asexual
       | technicians. At least they wouldn't want to search your files for
       | nudes.
       | 
       | https://www.cc.com/episodes/1xvf7u/nathan-for-you-computer-r...
        
       | ahartmetz wrote:
       | Years ago, a flatmate - a girl even - told me about a friend of
       | hers who repairs computers. According to that guy, about half of
       | all women have nudes of themselves on their computers. And,
       | obviously, the guy was speaking from experience. So... yeah.
       | Don't trust the computer repairman with your data.
        
       | soupbowl wrote:
       | 15 years ago I was a PC repair guy. It was common enough for
       | people to leave their porn on their desktop. I had laptops
       | brought to me that had the customer naked as the wallpaper. I
       | also had many customers with animal porn that even paid me to
       | specifically backup their "special files".
       | 
       | In my experience, I did not need to be a creep while fixing
       | computers, the customers did that for me.
        
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