Technology

I don't leave porn or NSFW content in plain view on my PC, much less files that might be evidence for crime. I'd assume those who actually do have criminal evidence or CSAM on their PC might keep it tucked away where it's not obvious at the very least. On the other hand, I also know that Florida Man is active in all fifty states, and up to very dumb shit worthy of jail time. So they might not know better than to use CSAM as their desktop wallpaper.

I'd think finding CSAM by choosing a random media file and looking at it would be extremely rare, and if the tech restoring a drive of the worst offender would still find images more like bliss.jpg, maybe some images of last year's office Christmas party or the recent trip to Yosemite, rather than the accumulated CSAM section.

So if multiple techs at a service are finding CSAM worthy of reporting to FBI, I'd assume they're checking out the porn stash on PCs, or seeing if there are cheesecake photos buried in the My Pictures subfolders. From what I expect of humans, they hide stuff that's super private. But it's also possible that way more people than I expect are really that stupid.

The fact that FBI had a bounty with Geek Squad indicates it happens enough that GS techs routinely browse the data they restore, whether or not it's company policy, and it shows a lack of discipline in the ranks. What's more worrisome is what happens to those who keep their interpersonal sexts and cheesecake, and how tempted GS techs are to share pics with each other (typical in the surveillance sector) and post them on 4Chan. We've already had incidents like the fappening.

Repeat occurrences indicates a lack of discipline regarding privacy among Geek Squad techs. Repeat leaks to FBI, and a bounty both imply GS techs habitually sift through other people's files for their own gratification. And that's messy.