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That's horrible. The most surprising results are in section 5, especially claims that technicians copied files from the repaired devices.

ketralnis 4y ago
During the so-called "Fappening" one of the rumours about the source of the photos was a group of Geek Squad type tech support employees that were trading the photos that they pulled off of devices in their care. According to that theory the ages of the photos were mixed because that group had mostly kept them to themelves until the large leak of the whole corpus.
- Buge 4y ago
  In reality it was from phishing attacks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_celebrity_nude_photo_leak#Investigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_celebrity_nude_photo_leak...
clnq 4y ago
I used to think that people wouldn't do these things, but some do them regularly and unapologetically. I once caught a car technician from a reputable dealership's service taking my car out for personal chores, as the guy did not even unplug my dashcam. I had a rude awakening when I realized these things aren't just urban myths but that they do happen. Some people have no qualms about taking advantage of our unattended things. Of course, this is an anecdote with a sample size of 1, and I can't speak about how often these things happen. But I'm honestly not that surprised to read section 5 in this paper. Not even surprised to see that there was no attempt to cover tracks on most laptops.
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago
  taking a car for a rode makes sence conceptually. Came across the same behaviour myswlf recently. But what does a technician get out of copying my porn collection?
  - Gigachad 4y ago
    There are documented cases of repair people copying off the users nudes.
- skorpeon87 4y ago
  A mechanic taking a car for a ride is at least plausibly productive; the mechanic tests the car out to make sure it's running well, no weird noises/etc. Of course if you just brought the car in for an oil change and not asking them to investigate a weird intermittent noise, I can see why you'd be upset.
  - clnq 4y ago
    Yes, it could be justifiable for some reasons.
- solomatov 4y ago
  Yep, I thought the same way. I.e. most of people won't ever do it.

ketralnis 4y ago

During the so-called "Fappening" one of the rumours about the source of the photos was a group of Geek Squad type tech support employees that were trading the photos that they pulled off of devices in their care. According to that theory the ages of the photos were mixed because that group had mostly kept them to themelves until the large leak of the whole corpus.

Buge 4y ago
In reality it was from phishing attacks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_celebrity_nude_photo_leak#Investigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_celebrity_nude_photo_leak...

clnq 4y ago

I used to think that people wouldn't do these things, but some do them regularly and unapologetically. I once caught a car technician from a reputable dealership's service taking my car out for personal chores, as the guy did not even unplug my dashcam. I had a rude awakening when I realized these things aren't just urban myths but that they do happen. Some people have no qualms about taking advantage of our unattended things. Of course, this is an anecdote with a sample size of 1, and I can't speak about how often these things happen. But I'm honestly not that surprised to read section 5 in this paper. Not even surprised to see that there was no attempt to cover tracks on most laptops.

ClumsyPilot 4y ago
taking a car for a rode makes sence conceptually. Came across the same behaviour myswlf recently. But what does a technician get out of copying my porn collection?
- Gigachad 4y ago
  There are documented cases of repair people copying off the users nudes.
skorpeon87 4y ago
A mechanic taking a car for a ride is at least plausibly productive; the mechanic tests the car out to make sure it's running well, no weird noises/etc. Of course if you just brought the car in for an oil change and not asking them to investigate a weird intermittent noise, I can see why you'd be upset.
- clnq 4y ago
  Yes, it could be justifiable for some reasons.
solomatov 4y ago
Yep, I thought the same way. I.e. most of people won't ever do it.