CBS News: Copy Machines, a Security Risk?

(CBS) At a warehouse in New Jersey, 6,000 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.

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[roycestevens37]

Your video is a favorite on Santiago

[chrisworld2]

I would have assumed they were all jpegs, but on the computer it looked like they were all PDF's.

[Deeked]

What's worse than this is people and their home computers. It's so easy to get the average person to install spyware or malware on their own machine. I see it all the time.

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU CLICK ON PEOPLE!

[wallysboyfriend]

I'd bet you'd find lot's of asses that were copied on those machines

[pwnyoubitch]

ebay suggested a miley cirus video because i watched this

[lhotkami]

Wow, I had NO IDEA that copiers have a hard drive, why in the world do they need it?!  I get the copier needs to run a program but there is absolutely no need to the hard drive to save copies of what people copied, I had absolutely NO IDEA they did this, talk about a HUGE breech in privacy!!!!

[emokid3030]

Does anybody know what software they used? I'm sure you can just hook it up to a computer if you have a USB to SATA/IDE HDD, right?