old phototcopiers and your data security

[Mousey]

I knew this... and I guess it's becasue of all the problems I've had with my office photocopiers over the years... I always just junk an old one, but always pull out the hard drive first (if it has one).... some (smaller ones) used to have just a bit of memory and not a HD. Just imagine what could be gleaned from the hard drive off a public use copier at the local post office, for instance. The CBS story ran in 2010, old maybe? BUT, most big companies are going to have photocopiers that are a couple or more years old in use. Anyway, just an FYI....

 

[azzagirt]

I have two I no longer use from 10 yrs or so ago..
. I will now set fire to them...lol.

 

[LaHutti]

That's some pretty serious shit.

 

[smcinoz]

Thats amazing

on a side note, vid reminder me of this gem i hadnt watched for ages

 

[vinylweatherman]

WHY!!! Do these machines NEED to store EVERY DAMN IMAGE EVER COPIED??? This is down to the manufacturer grossly overspecifying functionality, or a designed in "intent to spy" that most users do not know of, let alone use.

This is potentially more serious than bin raiding for unshredded paper documents. The leasing deals probably prohibit the users from unscrewing the hard drive and destroying data before handing the machine back, and it is the leasing company that should be taking steps to ensure data is removed before sending the machine out again.

Cue News International buying up vast stocks of used copiers now that they can't hack phones any more

I always thought flash memory was used to buffer only the most recent images, and these not kept at the end of a copying session when a new user comes along, or the machine gets switched off.

I wonder whether the cheaper home scanner/copiers have a smaller, but similar, problem with their flash storage?

 

[Mousey]

WHY!!! Do these machines NEED to store EVERY DAMN IMAGE EVER COPIED??? This is down to the manufacturer grossly overspecifying functionality, or a designed in "intent to spy" that most users do not know of, let alone use.

This is potentially more serious than bin raiding for unshredded paper documents. The leasing deals probably prohibit the users from unscrewing the hard drive and destroying data before handing the machine back, and it is the leasing company that should be taking steps to ensure data is removed before sending the machine out again.

Cue News International buying up vast stocks of used copiers now that they can't hack phones any more

I always thought flash memory was used to buffer only the most recent images, and these not kept at the end of a copying session when a new user comes along, or the machine gets switched off.

I wonder whether the cheaper home scanner/copiers have a smaller, but similar, problem with their flash storage?

I've wondered about that. Remember reading news stories every now and then about how cops find clues from copy machines?

side note: please forgive my typos. I posted from work and the cat was sleeping on the desk between me and the keyboard and I was having to reach around her.

 

[smcinoz]

And also working for the government i think how much stuff i photocopy everyday