[TriLUG] Verizon Wireless Privacy WTF

[Brian Phelps]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Andrew Stephenson <tendonut at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm pretty sure his intentions were to not leave the phone just lying on a
> counter unsupervised. Even if there were other employees around, no
> guarantee they'd stop a guy who would just walk right up and snatch it off
> the counter.
>
The counter was the same counter his keyboard/mouse was on. The sales
counter was between me and this and customers were not allowed back there.
Any customer back there would have raised suspicion immediately.

This is the most likely explanation though.


> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Brian Phelps <brphelps at ieee.org> wrote:
>
> > I got screen protectors for my Android at the Verizon store today.  The
> > employee volunteered to take my phone and put on a screen protector.
> >
> > I watched him as he cleaned the screen with my phone laying on the
> counter
> > for about a minute.  I started to get board.  Then suddenly he decided to
> > go
> > to the back.  I looked down, my phone was gone.  He had picked it up off
> > the
> > counter.  He came back in about 1-2 min and he brought a can of cleaner
> > back
> > with him, placed the phone back on the counter and continued cleaning it.
> >  I
> > ragged him about needing my phone to got to the back and grab a can of
> > cleaner. He claimed to be new.
> >
> > I wonder if there is a log somewhere that will tell me if he tried to
> > connect it to "The Big Reader".
> >
> > I aint worried about anything.  I log onto a few forums with it to
> > view/post
> > and occasionally check out guesshermuff.  I don't use it for banking or
> > anything sensitive simply because I hate a touchscreen keyboard like
> > midgets
> > hate urinals.
> >
> > I am just wondering if anyone here has a similar experience.  slashdot
> > needs
> > to do a poll on unsolicited phone confiscation.
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