> I worked at a Best Buy, and while this is a concern, you shouldn't be afraid to tell them about this. > > Here's my suggestion. Take your laptop, go to the security counter up front. Ask to speak to the Security lead, or the on-duty manager or sales manager. Wait there, then briefly explain what you found and how you came about it. > Explain that you were doing it only as a test for your new card, and they shouldn't have any problem with that bit. > Then explain that this information is being sent outside of the building, and that you, as a customer find this very worrying and you feel that will discourage you from shopping at a Best Buy in the future. This will really perk them up and they prolly will ask for the data on a disk, and then have you erase it from your laptop. > > They were really nice people and I can see something like this being a concern for them. > Not to go off topic here, but, the demo to the store just strikes me as a bad way to go about this... Forget the fact that Best Buy likes to arrest people now for odd things... ( http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=31635&threshold=4&commentsort=0&tid=98&mode=thread&cid=3403140 http://hypothermia.gamershardware.com/articles/bb_arrest.html ) But I can only assume that the wrong guy would call the cops... And most of the good people will: a) not care b) arent in a position to do something if they did... Want to do this? Leak an anonymous tip the Channel 9 news, demo it for them anonymously.... Let mass media fix the problem for you....
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