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Copy Machines, a Security Risk?

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Uploaded by on Apr 19, 2010

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the good, old-fashioned copy machine. But, as Armen Keteyian reports, advanced technology has opened a dangerous hole in data security.

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  • Oh crap. All those copies of my ass.

  • @wally52212 That's not true. It's much more complex than that, but because it's an inconvenient truth that you don't know how to wipe data correctly (multi-pass writes of all zeroes and then all ones in iterative succession and a bit-by-bit verification), you chose to post a fear-mongering comment.

    As long as you're thorough, there's no reason to fear hard drives.

    Furthermore, most copiers have the option to not cache old copies. CBS is known for yellow journalism concerning technology.

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  • advanced technology has opened a dangerous hole in data security --- i agree

  • it's obvious that companies wanted it as a part of enforcing policies /watching employees.

  • holy shi...

  • Thumbs up if you noticed that they use Ubuntu to reconstruct the documents :D :D :D

  • Paranoia...

  • I love the resource monitor you used to make it look like your hacking lmfao!

  • Wow! You guys heh... I had no idea that copiers kept a copy of old files!

    Thats pretty fucking stupid.

  • @jebbadiah :D

  • "Unknown buyers" it's the illuminati

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