watch the video after the short advert
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/19/eveningnews/main6412439.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/19/eveningnews/main6412439.shtml
Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets
- Thread starter Gentle Ben
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Surprising that major corporations don't bother to wipe the drives when their copiers go off-lease. I guess idiots come in all sizes.
that's pretty scary, copiers from lawyer's office's , banks, police dept, government institutions loaded with people's confidential information and that easy to retrieve. I don't know why a copier would need to store the image indefinitely. The manufacturers must know that there's a huge potential for misuse of the images , so why build them to keep the images forever.
here's some more info on the same CBS News Investigation into Photocopiers Raises Questions in Buffalo
that's just stupid, its extortion. " sure I can copy that document for you , but if you want me to delete it you'll have to pay me $500 to do so"Of course copier manufacturers know about it. They offer a $500 software option to delete the image from the HDD. Of course they should make it standard but I suppose there is a royalty payment to some wiping software possible.
But $500?
if a person goes to staples and photocopies a document , they don't have any reason to believe a copy of it is being stored forever. There's nothing to tell the customer that , and there's no way for the customer to erase it themself.
A dirty big electro magnet might work.Does anybody know how to erase the data before returning the machine? How about running a big magnet on the ouside of the hard drive?
