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- Get the real story! - xerox.com/security
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- Here's an answer about this problem from www.ComputerRecyclingUSA.com
Hello Dean,
If the copier has no on board data erasure capability, the drives are either removed and destroy physically or they are removed and erased then placed back in the machine.
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Rocco D'Amico
Computer Recycling USA
www.ComputerRecyclingUSA.com
rocco@computerrecyclingusa.com
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- is this story true? does anyone know what the free software to use to connect the hard drive to my laptop? i wanna do this to my own copier to see if this is true.
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- I know that Xerox has the disk overwrite and encryption already in place and it comes with the machines. In this article, one of the printer companies said they charge $500 for it! Why would you charge for something Xerox already does? This story is scary!
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- There are too many repetitive and uninteresting comments here to read them all. But I have question and an observation:
Does the user's manual for any of these machines state that copies are being retaituretnrs.ned by the machine? Clearly it ought to, and especially so for a machine which is leased.
Does anyone understand the liability issue which this causes? I'm on the board of a public libary, and we let people use copiers for a free. They do things like copy their income tax returns. If that information is disclosed when the copier is returned from being on lease how can the library protect itself? - Reply to this comment
- It is unfortunate that CBS didn't have the BALLS to do their duty as a NEWS source and call out the culprits of this dangerous laziness. SO I will: the three business entities (all basically the same business) from which the copiers mentioned in this articale were bought are Ross International / Mars International / Global Key. The big shot who run most of the business is Ferdinand Dimafelix.
This is indeed a problem, though it is not systemic in the industry. These people are north african/middle-eastern exporters, who, despite appearances on the surface of their busniess and on their ever-smiling faces, are truly the rapists and plunderers of the e-scrap business. Doing the right thing means absolutely nothing to them, they will exploit every possible loop-hole, cut every corner, and do anything they can get away with. If CBS had any f*cking stones they would have nailed their sorry ***** to the wall. - Reply to this comment
- Make the hard drives so they dont do that ....duhhh
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- Somewhere today there is three well dressed italin men buying twenty scrubbers at time.
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- OK this makes the Third time this has made the news in recent years . . . "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."
This is not only untrue, it is illogical . . can you imagine the file space required for storing every image ever copied? The files are temporarily stored to the hard drive and then over-written - again and again. And if you had the good sense to purchase a Canon, it is written in a proprietary format that is unreadable by anyone. I wonder how many times this tired old saw will be paraded out by some "Pundit" looking for quick and illicit celebrity at the expense of so called "trusted" news source. - Reply to this comment
- [All the major manufacturers told us they offer security or encryption packages on their products. One product from Sharp automatically erases an image from the hard drive. It costs $500.
But evidence keeps piling up in warehouses that many businesses are unwilling to pay for such protection, and that the average American is completely unaware of the dangers posed by digital copiers. ]
nonsense. this is the typical business ploy to sell you the stripped down version and 'up sell' you to generate additional revenue.
how much will the additional feature cost when the lawsuits add up to tens of millions?
if the systems have means to store these images ... it should have means to remove them by those using the machine ... without any additional cost. - Reply to this comment
