Ever used a photocopier?
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Work filter blocks it citing adult materials...safe for work?
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I've seen this before, I hate the fact they are bascially advertising how to get confidential documents.
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That's scary stuff. Why would a photocopier need to store images of thousands of documents in the first place? Surely all it needs is a couple of gigabytes of RAM at most to process current jobs.
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Indeed that is very disturbing. You would have thought copier manufacturers would at least warn users that the data is being stored and needs erasing before disposal.
If it took that guy 12hrs to recover, i don't think they're just left on there as files. I'd think they are deleted (once processed and printed, or PDF'd and emailed), but we all know that deleting a file from the filesystem doesn't mean it's gone forever.
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That's pretty shocking, I had no idea the data was stored on a hard drive, I always assumed copiers used RAM.
Same here!
Does the copier offer the option to recall old docs? I've never seen that.
If not why save all the old copies?
It won't be saving old copies - they'll be deleted, but still 'there' until they're overwritten by other data. It'll require specialist software to recover the files as shown in the video.
Photocopiers can do all sorts of fangled stuff now -scanning to PDF and emailing, job storage for printing etc. will require a fair bit of processing and storage space. It's basically a small PC in there, hence the hard disc requirement.
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