Copy machine security risk
 

Maybe this has been on TheCellar before, but if not I feel everyone should know about it.

CBS report here...

Since 2002 copy machines have had hard drives, and store images on this hard drive of every copy, fax, and email scan.
Often these images are not erased before the used machine is sold / given away.

I don't think I believe that. You have no idea of the volume of paperwork we move through our main machine--even if it had terabytes or something, we'd have to be replacing the hard drive. a lot.

it may have a record of the number of copies; maybe even associated with client numbers (since we have a system for that), but as for taking a picture of each and every page run through it, and storing it indefinitely--no.

Fuck ya, that's what you get for abusing your employer's trust, using company equipment for personal stuff. :lol:

It does store page images. It probably stores them indefinitely, as in it is not definite how long they are stored. Probably FIFO (first in, first out) - the oldest images are deleted when space is needed.

I agree. It does scan the pages in order to make the copies, but it doesn't keep them forever. I'm not too worried--someone one have to go through hundreds and hundreds of pages in order to find one kind of usable nugget.

easier to go through our trash :)

Thousands of pages, I expect. Disk space is cheap.

hundred and hundreds of thousands of pages. I meant. (aka a whole lot) sorry

Didn't the guy say 20 thousand?

20,000? we can go through that in a week. Well, okay -- a month. Lawyers kill trees.

That doesn't matter, the hard drive is still holding the last 20K when it goes out the door, and that's 20K too many. I'm sure the lawyers wouldn't be happy if you left copies of the last 20K documents you handled on the doorstep.

don't care. really, really don't.

A friend of mine got fired for xeroxing her boobs on the company machine. She got busted because she left the original in the machine...

You don't care about your client's personal information. Isn't that violation of your lawyer boss's hypocrite oath? :eek:



3foot, go to your room. :lol:

Our copiers have hard drives, and we can access them from our desktops on the network. After I make a personal scan of something, I go back to my desk and pull it up, then I delete it from the copier's hard drive. If it's work related, I just leave it there. Once, I snooped around in that drive a little, but quickly got bored. Nothing juicy in there. I have to assume our IT people know to erase that hard drive before it goes out. They knew to link to it in the first place.

Cracked me up, foot.

But... left a boob in the machine?