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Copy Machines, a Security Risk?

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Armen Keteyian reports on how digital copy machines store scanned documents on internal hard drives, posing a significant data security risk.

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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What people say. Recommended as a classic news report highlighting the overlooked security risks of discarded office copy machines containing sensitive data.

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Copy Machines, a Security Risk?

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Copy Machines, a Security Risk? (This was posted before, but I'm reposting it, because I'm wondering if anyone has a legitimate reason for copy machines to store an image of everything it scans/copies/etc. This just seems like laziness on the part of manufacturers.)