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architeuthis666
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 Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:40 pm Post subject: warning about privacy |
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Ya know when I first found this forum, I got all excited because it looked like three or four people were very eager to repair my hard drive. After thinking about it, I realized something though.
What's to stop these people who repair your hard drive from scanning the whole thing for credit card numbers, social security numbers, addresses, birthdates, bank account numbers, account passwords, etc.? How do you know the person you send the drive to is not associated with Chinese or Nigerian scammers/identity thieves who are safe from prosecution overseas?
Here is my suggestion to you all: do not send your hard drive to be repaired by anyone who will not share their real name, their business or home address, their phone number, etc. Even that is no guarantee of safety, but it's better than blindly sending 120 gigs of identity theft bonanza into a black hole. |
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zwober
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:46 am Post subject: Re: warning about privacy |
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| architeuthis666 wrote: | | Here is my suggestion to you all: do not send your hard drive to be repaired by anyone who will not share their real name, their business or home address, their phone number, etc. Even that is no guarantee of safety, but it's better than blindly sending 120 gigs of identity theft bonanza into a black hole. |
is there no work-contract set up prior to the work being started ?
as in, prior to me sending you the disk containing all my private data - i have to sign a waiver that states that i will actually Let you - the repair-man - work with it ?
i havent had to send in a disc atm, but i can understand your concern. the same goes for the contents of the disc - be it personal files or work-related information.
What im really curios to know tho, if anyone can answer me ofc, - is if the repairman actually Have to look through the drive or start it - or if you just plug it in a Chkdsk-enviorment and send it back to the customer when and if it checks out to be ok ?
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architeuthis666
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 1:22 pm Post subject: Re: warning about privacy |
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| zwober wrote: | | is there no work-contract set up prior to the work being started ? |
If you are unlucky and end up dealing with a scammer whose only interest is in collecting information for identity theft or credit card fraud, then some paperwork is not going to be much help. That's my concern -- you just have no idea who you are dealing with. My gut says these guys are all legit, but people's guts get them in trouble on teh Intarwebs every day. |
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zwober
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| Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2010 9:03 am Post subject: Re: warning about privacy |
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| architeuthis666 wrote: | | zwober wrote: | | is there no work-contract set up prior to the work being started ? |
If you are unlucky and end up dealing with a scammer whose only interest is in collecting information for identity theft or credit card fraud, then some paperwork is not going to be much help. That's my concern -- you just have no idea who you are dealing with. My gut says these guys are all legit, but people's guts get them in trouble on teh Intarwebs every day. |
True, my point is that if said worker dosent present some form of work-related contract - id prolly say no to the work being done. ofc, even a scammer can send a pdf - but id expect some form of work-adress and the like on it.
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