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RE: Court Documents For Winternals vs Best Buy Geek Squa d
From: Blanchard_Michael () emc com
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:41:23 -0400
Winternals trained the Geek-Squad before this happened on how to use ERD commander, and some of the Geek-Squad people had mentioned that they were using it illegally before and that they were glad that Best Buy was finally purchasing licenses. It's surprising in this day and age that a large corporation still feels that they can use software in this manner and never get caught.... I guess it happens more often than I think... Michael P. Blanchard Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Office of Information Security & Risk Management EMC ² Corporation 4400 Computer Dr. Westboro, MA 01580 -----Original Message----- From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Mike Owen Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 2:15 PM To: funsec () linuxbox org Subject: Re: [funsec] Court Documents For Winternals vs Best Buy Geek Squad On 4/13/06, Don Kennedy <zoverlords () yahoo com> wrote:
"Winternals recently contacted numerous Geek Squad precincts, throughout
the
country and requested they repair damaged computers...." "Geek Squad employees arrived at the location of the damaged computer and carried out repairs using pirated copies of Winternals ERD commander."
Before reading the actual court documents, I assumed that Winternals was using a simple web bug or similar in their software, and Best Buy was allowing it through their firewall(s). It seems they took the even easier path, and just had them come fix their computers, and video taped them using their software :) Mike _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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