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Thread: Are you using a copier? Be careful!

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    Are you using a copier? Be careful!

    For those who use a copier (and who is not?) please have a look here:

    http://hight3ch.com/photocopier-secu...eft/#more-4315

    Watch that video and ... panick?!?
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    Scary. John, thanks for sharing. I knew that copiers stored the data, but never gave any thought to it being made available to anyone outside of the office (or that it saved so much).
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    All the more reason to splurge and treat yourself to one of those all-in-one printer/scanner/fax/copier machines. They're gotten very affordable, and in Staples or Office Max it's hard to find a printer that ISN'T an all-in-one machine.
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    Holy cow!!! No more visits to the friendly bookstore round the corner for me! Darn, I once got a copy of my ID card there!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by Hawkmoon
    All the more reason to splurge and treat yourself to one of those all-in-one printer/scanner/fax/copier machines.
    We got one of those 4 years ago, and use it almost exclusively. I didn't realise how good an idea it was until just now!
    Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
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    Thanks John!

    A Big WOW! I made many a copy on the machines at U.S.Post Offices. While it should have, it never entered my mind that my IDs and personal information were at risk.
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    Some companies upload networked copier data to search for banned activity with software; similar to uploading website visit history and favorites looking for the same thing.

    As an aside, many yrs ago a US embassy in a foreign country discovered their locally made copier automatically made two copies. One coming out of the machine and one staying in an internal bin. As I recall the copier "broke down" when the bin filled up and the in-country copier service personnel delivered the bin contents to their local intelligence service. Low tech but effective.

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    I wonder what's the purpose of the disk in the copier? Is there any way to recall a copy you made a week ago?!?
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    Since I'm in the "document management" business, meaning I sell copiers, I'll you a brief rundown on why hard drives and what I think about the video.

    First, digital copiers have hard drive so the pages can be scanned once and printed many. You may normally make only one copy at a time but the copier needs to be able to store the images of 250+ pages depending on the number of originals in a document.

    Next, retrieving images aren't as easy as they made out in the story. However as a general rule of thumb if someone intends you ill and can access your hardware then they own you.

    We have a DoD option that triple overwrites the HDD on our machines, there's a catch though, as this will disable a lot of cool functions that people like

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