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CBS – Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets At a warehouse in New Jersey, 6000 used copy machines sit ready to be sold. CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports almost every one of them holds a secret. Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive – like the one on your personal computer – storing an image of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine. In the process, it’s turned an office staple into a digital time-bomb packed with highly-personal or sensitive data. If you’re in the identity theft business it seems this would be a pot of gold. “The type of information we see on these machines with the social security numbers, birth certificates, bank records, income tax forms,” John Juntunen said, “that information would be very valuable.”
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#4 written by dgnorthrup 1 year ago
can anyone tell me why the government hasn’t stoped the manufacturers from
putting the harddrives in the copiers ? and why are the harddrives in them in the first place? another example of our government hard at work; protecting its citizens.
we need a government that cares more for the people who pay their too high saleries. not the crooks we have now. -
#5 written by havemofun 1 year ago
Many people don’t really understand the enormity of the threat of identity theft, the costs in losses, recovery or restoration of their identity, once discovered. Unfortunately, it seems that only those who have experienced it seem to take it seriously, which of course is too late. Listen up everyone, your information is ALREADY out there. It’s only a matter of time before you’re hit.
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#6 written by heluvatoughsucka 1 year ago
@Freredical – Absolutely agree! They give the user something that he does not understand, does not want or perhaps is not even aware of , charge more money for that, and then charge an additional $500 to clean up the mess it leaves behind. In any case, the “optional” security software should be included, but no, let’s charge $500 for three lines of code.
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#23 written by woodss82 1 year ago
i once had a copier in for repairs, and purchased a copier a few years back which stored faxes of the same model the one in for repairs had faxes stored from a doctors office and the owner wanted a fax of hers the new owner so I printed all the faxes it had, doing this the machine spit out pages and pages of medical faxes. Ealier this year, I purchased a Fuji Xerox DCC400, and I had to clean its memory and drive of junk from the previous owner its disgusting.
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#25 written by TheGrayman1234 1 year ago
@mschwartz76 Sorry, it is you who are mistaken. We OWN our copiers. We still pay service contracts to keep them running, but they are “OWNED.” We got tired of leasing them for years (and paying service contracts) only to pay additional payments when we turned them back in. It costs less to buy them in the long run. Yes, these are MFP’s: copier, printer, fax and network scanning capable.
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@TheGrayman1234 Or perhaps another option would be to run a powerful magnet over it.