T-Mobile sued after employee stole nude images from customer phone during trade-in::T-Mobile has been sued again for failing to protect consumer data after an employee at one of its Washington stores stole nude images off of a customer’s phone.

  • kgbbot@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The employee was and is a scum bag human, but what dumbass trades a phone with nudes on it‽ I wouldn’t even get a phone serviced with nudes.

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      I worked for sprint in a retail store for 3 years, and the number of people that handed me their phones with their own nudes as the backgrounds was shocking.

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      1 year ago

      Flashback to the time Gary Glitter got arrested for handing in a PC for repair that was stuffed to the gills with child porn.

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      Simple, Could’ve broken it beyond use after taking the noods. Possibly due to holding it an awkward position to get them sick porn angles.

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        1 year ago

        Everyone knows that 196° is the best, and subsequently the most awkward and prone to dropping angle for porn.

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      1 year ago

      See, I don’t care if people see my nudes as such. What would bother me more is the act of accessing my phone in ways they didn’t need to, rather than what they found, so I don’t see much point in removing nudes first.

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      So what do you do if you literally cant wipe the phone I.e broken screen? Just never have anything there to begin with?

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          1 year ago

          Youve never actually had that happen if you think its that easy.

          Guys no…

          1. You cant wipe a phone remotely with your google sign on unless “find my device” is enabled, which it never was.

          2. My phone does not just give access automatically to any device plugged into it. You are REQUIRED to give permission from the phone. Which cant be done because the screen is fucked.

          3. Your phone SHOULDNT be accessible in this scenario because allowing any device to just plug in and download everything with no authentication is a security risk.

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            It depends on how the phone is setup and whether or not you have plugged in to a pc before. It sounds like it’s you that has that no idea.

            Most android phones (can’t speak to Apple) are pretty much plug and play via USB. Plug it in and browse the files on it, it’s slow as hell and may be retrievable by software designed to undelete files but it’s doable, you may have to approve the connection on the phone but if you have plugged it in prior then you probable don’t have to.

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              Dude the goddamned phone requires that you confirm permission to access or manipulate anything on that phone. You cant just plug a usb cable in and fuck with everything. What the hell sort of phones do you guys buy that it just does that with no security measures?

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                Sounds like you don’t understand tech at all. Some of us have been using smart phones since palm and blackberry. Earlier versions of Android didn’t need the confirmation at all, assuming that it was defaulted to file access.

                I’ve been android since the beginning and my last few phones (all pixels) I don’t remember having to approve the usb connection after the first time.

                Can you plug a random phone into a pc and access files? Probably not.

                Can you plug your own phone into a pc it’s been connected to prior and access files even with a broken screen? More likely yes, than no.

                You and the other minions downvoting me should try reading my entire comments as many times ad needed for you to grasp the very basic concepts at play.

                And to repeat. You have no idea how the file system on android works. You most definitely can delete/backup/etc the photos, screenshots, etc on the phone via USB. You can not easily access app data as thats encrypted and stored elsewhere.

                You kids need to get off the internet before you hurt yourself.

                This is starting to feel more and more like reddit, that’s not a good thing.

                • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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                  This is starting to feel more and more like reddit, that’s not a good thing.

                  Huh, that’s odd. The same user having the same shitty experience across multiple platforms with no other discernable commonality. What a puzzle, we’ll never figure it out.

                  • antizero99@lemmynsfw.com
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                    Way to out yourself as one of the idiots I’m talking about. Reddit is full of jackasses who think they are the epitome of knowledge on a subject when the opposite is the truth, the ones who post the most telling others they are wrong are the ones who don’t know shit about jack, sadly these numbnuts are making there way here, apparently you are one of them.