[ale] copiers: one more thing to be paranoid about

[Jim Philips]

I saw the full report on television last night. The kicker is that whenever
you go to lease a copy machine, it's  probably been used by another company.
And you get to lease it with a full, unwiped hard drive. Imagine the
possibilities. The report showed a few and they were shocking. An excellent
piece of reporting!

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:49 AM, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com>wrote:

> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/19/eveningnews/main6412439.shtml
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> blurb
> "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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> In the process, it's turned an office staple into a digital time-bomb
> packed with highly-personal or sensitive data.
>
> If you're in the identity theft business it seems this would be a pot of
> gold.
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> "The type of information we see on these machines with the social
> security numbers, birth certificates, bank records, income tax forms,"
> John Juntunen said, "that information would be very valuable.""
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> - William
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