I suspect this "news" might be more aimed at middle America, where they don't have porn and little children grow up naturally with completely white, straight teeth.
There's a linux using, porn stealing pinko lefty Euro-federalist homosexual Islamic extremist vampire terrorist round every corner, you know... and only Bush (and Brown) can protect us from them.
The Midwest region is undoubtedly the worst, but the term "middle America" to me means not so much a region as a subset of the middle class, Conservative, traditionalist and blinkered they're an easy target for "unAmericanism" scandalmongering.
Fortunately of the many Americans I know very few fall into the category where they are evenly remotely concerned by this sort of thing, which gives me some hope for the future of the nation. :)
I don't think it's suprising to you & me, but it's an inevitable part of the consumerisation of computing that punters will come to long for some civilised behaviour on the part of their suppliers and tradesmen.
The entire enterprise had become deskilled due to rubbish products, shoddy s/w, desperate cost-saving measures and the nice punters being, well, customers.
No-one with any sense is going to waste their time at the sharp end when they could be more gainfully and less painfully employed stabbing themselves in the legs with knitting needles, so you're going to end up with pond-life who'll either grass you up for being Gary Glitter or install some pr0n and then grass you up.
Well, absolutely. But it's still a shoddy state of affairs, and the punters are right to be despairing and offended by it no matter how predictable it is.
Just like dodgy builders and thieving mechanics, really.
No machine ever leaves my control with an HDD still in it. Anything I want is backed up to another machine on the LAN, and a big hammer is taken to the drive.
There's far too much work taken home, personal documents, and copyrighted data on virtually any machine I own to let drives escape.
I'm aware of at least one manager at another division of $PREVIOUSCOMPANY who used to routinely 'borrow' USB sticks and copy data - sadly nobody ever tried a sting on him.
The weekly list of stories about stolen HDs and laptops in SANS Newsbytes ought to make anyone who gets paid for this sort of thing stop and pay attention.
Hell, hacking someone's office machine and installing pr0n was the plot hook for some chick-lit I read a few years ago.
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The Midwest region is undoubtedly the worst, but the term "middle America" to me means not so much a region as a subset of the middle class, Conservative, traditionalist and blinkered they're an easy target for "unAmericanism" scandalmongering.
Fortunately of the many Americans I know very few fall into the category where they are evenly remotely concerned by this sort of thing, which gives me some hope for the future of the nation. :)
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No-one with any sense is going to waste their time at the sharp end when they could be more gainfully and less painfully employed stabbing themselves in the legs with knitting needles, so you're going to end up with pond-life who'll either grass you up for being Gary Glitter or install some pr0n and then grass you up.
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Just like dodgy builders and thieving mechanics, really.
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I don't think employees of "geek squad" warrant the title "technician".
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There's far too much work taken home, personal documents, and copyrighted data on virtually any machine I own to let drives escape.
I'm aware of at least one manager at another division of $PREVIOUSCOMPANY who used to routinely 'borrow' USB sticks and copy data - sadly nobody ever tried a sting on him.
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Hell, hacking someone's office machine and installing pr0n was the plot hook for some chick-lit I read a few years ago.
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