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.

  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    After being in IT for a decade it never ceases to amaze me how incompetent people are when it comes to tech.

    At my first gig in NYC I worked at a smaller financial firm (about 100 people) and every mid-level and above employee was given a work phone. One time I got a ticket that said “my smartphone is being really slow, can someone please take a look?”. I went up there and it was a guy in his 40s (I was like 30), suit and tie, I think he was a Junior VP or something like that. He gave me his Galaxy S5 and I looked at the RAM usage and it was all taken up by Chrome. I opened up Chrome and he had 99+ tabs open, I told him that was the reason and he said “Oh… I thought those automatically closed when I exited (he meant switched apps, not killing the process)…”, I told him they didn’t and started swiping them away, after the first few it was about 90 tabs of (teen) porn 🤣. I had to stand there in front of him, straight faced for a good few minutes cleaning up his porn. Afterwards I said “it should be better now, just remember to close your tabs when you’re finished with them.” and left. Once I got in the elevator I nearly pissed myself laughing so hard.

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      1 year ago

      That’s awesome. Reminds me of having to tell an SVP that yes, per his demand, I did take his request to keep sharing music online illegally at work. He didnt seem to accept that the legal letters the form received meant he needed to change anything.

      What could have been an ‘oh shit, my bad’ and noone has to know - turned into the entire leadership weighed in to direct me to delete the files and tools and be very clear he was putting his employment at risk.

      The poor man’s ego. He seemed to think the IT guy didn’t have the ability to speak to him like that. Even insisted I tell him in front of two of his staff as a power play

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, that was about a decade ago and it’s still fresh in my memory, probably one of the most difficult times to maintain my composure. I could tell he wanted to die inside the moment I told him the tabs didn’t disappear.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve seen too many guys, even those in “respectable” positions like executives or club captains, just leave their porn tabs open before asking me for some help with their phones.

      When I asked them to open up their browser they would straight up open it up to a previously opened porn tab and start to panic. And somehow, the porn site that opened is always XNXX, lol. Pornhubs’ banned here and I guess XNXX just become popular instead.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not gonna lie I do this too. Not leaving porn tabs open, but not closing apps/tabs. Android should automatically clean these up afaik.

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        1 year ago

        Android should automatically clean these up afaik

        NOOOOOOOOOO! DO NOT. EVEN. SUGGEST. THAT.
        I’ve got hundreds of tabs opened, if Android cleaned them automatically it’d be like burning my own Library of Alexandria.

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            1 year ago

            Like if I didn’t have any mess in my bookmarks as well…

            Apart from that, a tab open means a task to do. I can bookmark an interesting tab only if I’ve “been there” already, e.g. if I’ve already read an article cover to cover.

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      1 year ago

      after the first few it was about 90 tabs of (teen) porn

      I better hope you saved the links. Just asking for a friend.