Computer repair shops steal passwords, hack bank accounts

In economic depressions like the one we're experiencing, long-term unemployment and low trade and investment levels breed fear, desperation, and violence. Murder and suicide rates increase, as well as theft, robberies, and burglaries. Cities and states are bankrupt. Low-priority crimes like breaking and entering may not even get prosecuted in Detroit because of budget restraints.

An "Every Man For Himself" motto will increasingly become a tacitly agreed on rationale and serve as justification to screw your fellow man. As we near complete collapse, all third party contact will eventually become a potential security risk.

Sky News reports:

Computer repair shops are illegally accessing personal data on customers' hard drives - and even trying to hack their bank accounts, a Sky News investigation has found. In one case, passwords, log-in details and holiday photographs were all copied onto a portable memory stick by a technician.

...customers were charged for non-existent work and simple faults were misdiagnosed. Sky engineers...created a simple, easily diagnosable fault, by loosening the connection of the internal memory chip. This prevented Windows being able to load. To get things working again, the chip would simply need to be pushed back into position. The investigation targeted six different computer repair shops. All but one misdiagnosed or overcharged for the fault.

All but one.