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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wow I did not know …
wow I did not know that
@srhnz67 @srhnz67 I …
@srhnz67 @srhnz67 I didn’t mean to post it on those kind of copy machines I just meant to use a regular scanner that does nothing but bring the image into the computer. If the information is for you you can file it away in a database if you would have given the info to someone else then just email them or post it on some site that they can go to. Why not just avoid having to work with paper entirely?
I’m wondering where …
I’m wondering where do they get these numbers, security feature cost 500$. They don’t want to secure their machines. Programs that can overnight rewrite whole hardrive with random data are opensource, only thing they need to do is update firmware.
Would this apply to …
Would this apply to a FAX machine?
Don’t know if anyone else posted this question and since there are so many comments, not sure!
I would consider …
I would consider the social security numbers on those machines a greater risk than the medical records.
and what os is he …
yeah ubuntu 
and what os is he using?
Even scanning …
Even scanning stores a copy on the internal HDD of these type of copiers. If you scan something with them, the scan job goes to a “mailbox” where you can retrieve the file once you are back at your desk.
The internal HDD is what it uses as buffer memory.
What I found funny was how the company “developed software” to scrub a disk. hands up all the linux users out there!!…LOL
Great! Let’s clue …
Great! Let’s clue in MORE sheisty criminals on how to be corrupt!
Why are people even …
Why are people even making copies anymore? Why doesn’t everyone just scan the documents into their computer and not deal with paper at all? Paper is a pain to work with anyways. When it is on a computer you can choose to lock the information so that others can’t see it.
Anyone who has a …
Anyone who has a business should see this. Pass on to ur friends.
good job media… …
good job media… if this is a risk, it’s a lot worse now.
Oh please, it’s a ‘ …
Oh please, it’s a ‘digital’ copier. How did you think it retained information to make multiple copies after scanning the original only once? Little Gremlins with great memories? Relax, if someone is making copies, your information is already public. The only secure information is that which you have never spoken, written or scanned. You can’t protect your records, but you can prosecute those who use it to commit crimes.
@Anothercoilgun
I …
@Anothercoilgun
I just surf on another website until that garbage ad is done. Youtube shouldn’t be going down with other video sites that forces people to see the ads beforehand. Thumbs down for youtube.
@Anothercoilgun …
@Anothercoilgun Isn’t it great to have the right, to expect multi-billion-dollar storage and distribution systems and the staff that keep it running and pay out bonus prizes to keep the content coming in, to do all that for free with no inconvenience to you, and never attempt to make a buck off of you in any way? I think it’s fantastic.
@madrox303 And to …
@madrox303 And to make things worse, tens of thousands of copiers have already been sold and are sitting in warehouses or being shipped right now. For everybody who sold a used copier in the last two years or so, it’s too late for them to fix it. Maybe they need to hire someone to make a pass through these warehouses and erase drives. (Still think point of resale is a good “safety net” for new drive erasure policies.)
@HerrXRDS They were …
@HerrXRDS They were probably like me, had their experience in things that are thought of as “computers” and had no idea the copier had a hard drive. I see it more as a failure of the copier companies. That level of data retention is really crazy and I wouldn’t have expected it in a device like that. Like if someone came up and said “you know your monitor retains images from the past two years and can re-display them.” I’d be like, wait what?
@HerrXRDS Exactly! …
@HerrXRDS Exactly! I’ve owned and operated my computer repair business for 10 years and during that time I’ve interveiwed hundreds of job applicants with anywhere from 2 to 4 years of college. It’s amazing how many people can go to school for that long and still not know squat.
@SuperEnoughAlready …
@SuperEnoughAlready You’re correct deleting is easily recoverable. To prevent someone easily retrieving deleted files, you write random numbers over the section of disk the file used to be on. That process is often referred to as “shredding”. (Though there are companies that do LITERALLY shred the drive.) To be extra secure you can write random numbers more than once. I’m pretty sure that’s what the upsell feature does.
@mistertehgrafix ” …
@mistertehgrafix “Auto shred feature?” Shredding is something you do to paper or cloth. Do you mean auto delete feature? Anything deleted from a hard drive is easily recoverable with today’s software programs and a little know how! You need to edit your YT profile and delete your “network tech” description posted under “occupation!”
if criminals didn’t …
if criminals didn’t know about this type of stuff they sure do now.
This is so scary …
This is so scary because millions of people don’t even know, or ever think about this. I know I didn’t until I got it forwarded to me from a relative.
HOLY CRAP!!! …
HOLY CRAP!!! Insane.
I decided to not …
I decided to not watch this video because of the stupid brain washing hair commercial before it.
Isn’t this common …
Isn’t this common knowledge for any network administrator ? How they alowed a HDD to leave the company without wiping or destroing the HDD’s ?
@SuperEnoughAlready …
@SuperEnoughAlready Hmm, good point. And adding a small battery for the RAM would just put things back at square one and be less reliable than a hard drive… So hard drives are the right tech for the solution, and the mistake was when companies tried to make money upselling customers on an auto-shred feature that should have been standard. I can’t imagine that kind of data retention surviving an actual legal challenge.