Thinking about taking your computer to the repair shop? Be very afraid

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Devices belonging to females were more likely to be snooped on, and that snooping tended to seek more sensitive data, including both sexually revealing and non-sexual pictures, documents, and financial information.“We thought they would just look at [the data] at most.”The amount of snooping may actually have been higher than recorded in the study, which was conducted from October to December 2021.In three cases, Windows Quick Access or Recently Accessed Files had been deleted in what the researchers suspect was an attempt by the snooping technician to cover their tracks.All were free of malware and other defects and in perfect working condition with one exception: the audio driver was disabled.All of the laptops were set up with email and gaming accounts and populated with browser history across several weeks."

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