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Mac Technician Installed Spyware to Photograph Women

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This is the 1st time where people are shitting on the user AND the OS. Usually, the OS does no wrong and the user is the asshole/idiot,... oh, wait,... this is Mac.

Sorry, I forgot that Windows OS is flawless, and, only the users create issues (probably Mac fanboys).
 
illusion88 said:
That's shady as shit, but the hot steam pop up message got a laugh out of me.

How could you possibly think that was a legit error message?
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I'm finding that an alarmingly high number of people seem to think that technology runs on nothing short of mixture of pure magic and voodoo.
And they probably get some of their ideas about technology from TV, where the laws of physics are merely suggestions.



Circumstantial evidence from work: A customer called in to report that one of our electronic products on their property had stopped working recently. Their reason: A tall building had been constructed about a half mile away, and it was disrupting the wireless signals to the product, preventing it from lighting up. (The product in question doesn't run on wireless anything. It runs on 120VAC, triggered by a hardwired sensor, and that's it.)
It took a few phone calls and replacement parts to get their system working again, and every single time, they insisted that this new building was causing the problem.


(It eventually was discovered that the customer had decided to paint some of the exterior of their building, and in the process, one of the workers painted right over the very obvious photoelectric sensor. And their "field techs" failed to mention the paint on the sensor at any point in time during our various phone conversations.)
 
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silverpig said:
What's more, why would you ever design a spyware cam capture program that popped up stuff like that? He'd still be doing it if all the program did was run in the background taking shots. Yes, you could look at a list of processes running and capture network traffic, but your average joe isn't going to know to do that, and certainly won't know what all those processes do.

The stupid steam/sensor message was just begging the user to take it in to a pro.
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Now stop and wonder how many people out there have that sort of spyware that is smart enough to do just that, keep hidden. I'm betting that there are huge repositories of pictures taken from just such a thing out there.
I wonder how they go about sorting though all the trash to find the few pictures they want?
I wonder if they have a program that can tell the difference between a clothed and unclothed person? Interesting technical challenge.
 
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