techrecovery | It must be late - the weirdos are starting to crawl out.

All the names below have been changed to protect the already-weird, and me of course.

"Good evening, my name is Reynardo, how can I help you?"

"I'd like to add an email address to my account."

"Certainly, sir, but did you know you can do that using your own primary email address and password?"

"I don't like using it. It's not safe."

"I beg your pardon?"

[hushed] "It's not safe. My ex-workmate put a tracer on my BIOS and they're getting copies of all my passwords and logging all my keystrokes, so I can't use my primary account at all."

"?????"

He then proceeded to explain that his primary username (which looks like XTVJKX0GoG) was created by taking the numbers and letters off a $20 bill at random to create it, but he doesn't trust it. And that every time he uses his computer his ex-workmate rings him then hangs up before he can get to the phone.

Riiiiiiiight.

"I'd be happy to put that new username in for you, Sir. What username would you like?"

"computersafe. I'm going to be selling computer security on eBay and I want to have a name that people think is reasonable for that stuff."

*boggle*

Here's a guy, doesn't trust his machine because he thinks there's an un-removable spy device on his BIOS that's tracking everything he does, but he's happy to put in the details for a username that he's going to sell a computer safety product with, even though whatever this product is it isn't good enough to make him safe. And undoubtedly also collect payment details on this same supposedly compromised machine.

*sigh*

The number of flaws in this argument is exceeded only by the thickness of the tinfoil this person undoubtedly wears over his head to keep them from reading his mind.

I'm sorry the guy is so paranoid, but the flaws in the logic grate so hard against me...