On Apr 19, 7:05*pm, LSMFT wrote:
Apparently photocopy machines since 2002 have hard drives that record
every document that is copied. Now there are warehouses full of used
copiers from banks, insurance companies, hospitals, doctors offices,
lawyers offices, police departments, government offices full of
documents scanned, printed or faxed by these organizations.
They are being sold to people in foreign countries all over the world as
we speak. Is your data secure?

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LSMFT

I'm trying to think but nothing happens.........

(1) This is not bunk or an urban legend if CBS actually bought random
copiers, ran the recovery program on the drives, and presented
evidence of what they found.

(2) I think what many are forgetting here is that these storage drives
are INSIDE a photocopier or network printer, and are not accessible by
standard means unless one physically pulls the drive out of the unit
and cobbles some way of installing it into a PC (or Mac, to be
platform agnostic).

(3) Any reasonable data recovery program can recover more data than
there is space on a drive. For example, when I had a 128MB compact
flash card "go out" in the 118° heat of Phoenix in the Summer (why,
oh, why did we go to Taliesin West in July?!?) my brother-in-law's
copy of Easy Recovery Pro found more than 300MB of recoverable data.
Yes, 2-1/2 times more data than the card's capacity. So if someone
were to run that sort of software on a copier drive, they could
recover many, many images that had been overwritten.

Food for thought for all of us...