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

[Greg Freemyer]

I did not read the article, but in general it is a bear to recover
files from a copier.

They often use proprietary filesystems etc.

So it is not as simple as mounting a drive partition and copying off files.

I don't know if they ever encrypt or not as well.

Greg

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
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> "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.""
>
>
> - William
>
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