Security Video - Hustling Hardware
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2 Responses to “Security Video - Hustling Hardware”
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Phobiac Says:
June 16th, 2007 at 4:58 pmI think the real lesson here is, don’t leave behind your laptop at a store for a half hour for them to do something to it that normally takes only a few minutes.
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JC Says:
June 17th, 2007 at 7:13 amWow, getting an half-dozen of crappy laptops (they needed the upgrade or had a problem, anyway), is really worth risk going to jail for ?
Not saying that it doesn’t happen, but those people should leave tracks somewhere… like the rental of the building since there should be landlord or something (unless he received cash under the table and didn’t make any contract…)
The two last videos show way for people to make money, but get caught rather easily… there is something “sensational” about these videos that I don’t like and seem them look FUD to me.
Internet scams/phising are much more lucrative and way less riskier in terms of probability to get caught (no need to leave tracks behind you as obvious as a building rental… the worst you can leave is an IP address… and if you compromised a box with an IP address that doesn’t relate to you, you are rather safe, especially since most law enforcement authorities are still relatively clueless when it comes to computers and IT security stuff (no need to look any further than the Julie Amero’s case…)
Also, this fraud isn’t really particular to IT, but can be done with almost anything : you can leave your car for repairs, for example, and people can drive it away from you too…
That said, I don’t doubt that some repairs shop sometimes tell the customers they will give them components of such brand or grade and end up giving them no-name components or smaller/slower hard drives but making them pay the high price depending of how computer-literate they seem. They can even get the better components from the computer to replace them with worse ones like the customer has a 100GB 7200RPM HDD and you replace it with a 100GB 5400RPM HDD.
That is easy, doesn’t involve many risks to get caught (even if the customer comes back complaining after finding out, you can just say it was a mistake and install the proper component this time), and can be done in the long-run instead of a one day rush, which seriously limits the booty…
