Copy machines, a security risk?
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2. nofreeusername commented 14 years ago
Why would manufacturers install such a thing???
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7. nofreeusername commented 14 years ago
I never knew tht!
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11. eNdEmiOn06463 commented 14 years ago
On the + side most if not as good as all buyers don't know there's still data to be retrieved and or have no interest in doing so.
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13. NielsTreurniet commented 14 years ago
That man should get a medal for his honesty, and that he warn the people... i thing he rescued a lot of company's with this!
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14. WildMonkey commented 14 years ago
The real question is why do they record all transactions and don't have an option to either delete them after a while or not record them at all?
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16. ruhk commented 14 years ago
#8 why does it have to jump straight to stupid Americans? I some "dumb" American "accidentally" nukes you. Yea, i said it, i hope you get nuked.
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18. tree4free commented 14 years ago
500 $ for a program who just format a hard drive or part of it in every few hours or days. I think even my windows has that kind of function. But this is some serious sh*t to lose that kind of informations to wrong peoples. Think about it, in this clip they showed us just a few mashines and they have found data from police departments, insurance companies,... lets say that some smart drug dealer find data from narcotic division and use the information in more terrifying ways.
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19. stonecold270 commented 14 years ago
didnt knew that
could indeed be dangerous in the wrong hands
but as urihep said....How many naked butts were stored in the hard drive?:-)
could indeed be dangerous in the wrong hands
but as urihep said....How many naked butts were stored in the hard drive?:-)
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20. stepanstas commented 14 years ago
Major corporations do have things in place that delete that stuff, not surprised that PD and small insurance companies don't.
I find that most of the time CBS airs something, its just giving ideas to people that never knew you could do those things. Practically spells it out.
I find that most of the time CBS airs something, its just giving ideas to people that never knew you could do those things. Practically spells it out.
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24. cameramaster commented 14 years ago
I WONDER......could i get a 2nd hand copier from the M.O.D or even better from 10 Downing street !
Yee god's the the thought of such a HUGE security breach hardly bears thinking about !
Yee god's the the thought of such a HUGE security breach hardly bears thinking about !
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25. LB187 commented 14 years ago
# 2 & # 3 The copiers are large office copiers designed to copy large documents that could potentially contain 500+ pages and the HDDs are for storing the temporary images. The companies that lease these machines what to track how many copies have been made as they charge for the copier per copy in some cases. Doesn't make this right but this the reason that the HDDs are there...
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26. irishgek commented 14 years ago
#8 Totally agree , i dont call this blowing any thing out of proportion its a good news story and a huge security hole in many company's exposed , and they way #1 goes on about creating insecurity , i mean ya like telling the whole world sadam had WMD's was fine thow.
Ill say one thing shame on copyer manufactures for not encrypting the data i cant believe its just there to view as files and text docs utter disgrace
#25 ya my factory has a networked one if i scan a doc i can print out on about 40 machines all over the network/world , and each time thats done its saving in on the hdd and holding it while it sends it out but there is a format option but most people dont have a clue how to change the paper not alone format the drive
Ill say one thing shame on copyer manufactures for not encrypting the data i cant believe its just there to view as files and text docs utter disgrace
#25 ya my factory has a networked one if i scan a doc i can print out on about 40 machines all over the network/world , and each time thats done its saving in on the hdd and holding it while it sends it out but there is a format option but most people dont have a clue how to change the paper not alone format the drive
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29. Marmalade commented 14 years ago
#23. It's far more difficult to completely erase data from a hard drive than most people realise. Formatting is simply the equivalent of tearing out the index pages of a book and leaving the contents as they were.
Overwriting with new data usually random strings of '0' and '1' is better, but even this approach can lead the unwary into a false sense of security, since the tolerances on disk writing are relatively high, meaning writes can be carried out on marginally adjacent tracks, thus leaving the original data intact, and readable by specialist disk recovery software.
Multiple passes of random data writes finally provides an acceptable level of security, but just think how long this would take on a 1TB drive?
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Overwriting with new data usually random strings of '0' and '1' is better, but even this approach can lead the unwary into a false sense of security, since the tolerances on disk writing are relatively high, meaning writes can be carried out on marginally adjacent tracks, thus leaving the original data intact, and readable by specialist disk recovery software.
Multiple passes of random data writes finally provides an acceptable level of security, but just think how long this would take on a 1TB drive?
This is my last post on SNOTR. Thanks for entertaining me for the past couple of weeks. I'm fit enough to leave hospital now, and work beckons.
Adios.
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31. Pizzathehutt26 commented 14 years ago
oh we will miss all of your negative feedback Miss Marmalade, lol.
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33. sux2bu commented 14 years ago
#8 & #26 The comment at #1 is from a Polynesian French island territory called Wallis and Futuna , not the US. How did you geniuses miss that?
And it took a "dumb American" to show you about the hard drive in the copier that you did not know about. How dumb are you guys? Never mind , I already know.
And it took a "dumb American" to show you about the hard drive in the copier that you did not know about. How dumb are you guys? Never mind , I already know.
+19 1. justice-league commented 14 years ago