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On 2015-10-01, Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
>> Are you actually claiming Best Buy spent time and money to scan the disk
>> surface of a customer's failing hard drive that had been previously erased
>> in order to piece together file fragments of deleted files to get personal
>> information? Because that's exactly what you seem to think Apple will do in
>> thus situation, and I find that very hard to believe they would go through
>> all that trouble for little to no gain. Link please. 
>
> Examples:
> http://www.tomsguide.com/us/geeksquad-best-buy,news-1242.html
> http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/keeping-laptop-private-while-turning-over-to-geek-squad-for-repair.703387/
> http://www.lockergnome.com/news/2012/07/23/best-buy-geek-squad-trust/
> http://www.startribune.com/geek-squad-a-matter-of-trust/18470879/
> http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-403687.html
> https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1mb9oi/computer_techs_of_reddit_if_i_bring_my_computer/
> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1955505/posts?page=141
> etc.

Oh, please. Which of those customers had their drives encrypted? I
already know the answer is: none of them. So I won't hold my breath
while you look. And you are equating Geek Squad, with a long history of
harming customers, with Apple which is consistently among the very best
in terms of customer service. That's irrational. Go ahead and show me
all of the articles about how Apple abused their customer's data please.
Again, not holding my breath.

If you turn on File Vault encryption to encrypt all of the data on the
drive, then erase the drive, there's no way anyone at Apple will be able
to get data off the drive.

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