Electronics repair technicians snoop on your data

When your computer or smartphone needs repairing, can you trust repair technicians not to access or steal your personal data? According to the results of a recent research by scientists with University of Guelph, Canada, you shouldn’t. Granted, they tested only 16 repair service providers with rigged devices, but in six cases technicians snooped on customers’ data and in two they copied the data to external devices. Oh, and most of them tried to cover … More →

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