[Turing_Machine]

Right. Accidentally finding something illegal is one thing.

Deliberately snooping every file on every computer that enters the shop is quite another.

Given the $500 reward, I suspect the latter situation is closer to the case.

[ribosometronome]

The article seems to indicate that not only were they poking around but they were recovering deleted files.

Good that they may have caught this fellow -- especially given his profession -- but that's probably rather horrifying for a significant portion of other people who brought their computers in for repair.

[SoylentYellow]

It is even worse in the article. Geek Squad employees were snooping into unallocated disk space to try to find evidence.