[TriLUG] Verizon Wireless Privacy WTF

[Andrew Stephenson]

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.

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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