Warning about copy machines!

I don't know about the LATEST ones, but I am sure they are no less secure than the others. YEP, the photocopy drum DOES hold an image. The same is true of laser printers. But who could really read it in most cases?

Steve

Wow I never knew of this thanks for the info! I would like to add has anyone checked out the adobe flash player? Read about their security risk. In a nutshell all your browsing history is "by default" stored on it and unless you erase this and change the settings you have no privacy.

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Well, I obviously didn't see the video before. That is STUPID! If I EVER find out that that happened to me, I will sue THREE levels deep, or ALL THE WAY to the MFG, INCLUSIVE!

That IDIOT that said, as if to say "It's SO cheap, THEY should buy it", "$500"! HELL, I would sue HIM also!

WHERE do they get off putting a KNOWN security risk into a system, and actually paying EXTRA to do so, and they say "You know, this is insecure......, pay us $500 MORE, and we will work around the problem WE put in!"!?!?!?

Drives cost a LOT of money. ALL they have to do is use the code that they need ANYWAY to store it in a buffer that they need ANYWAY, and write it to the drum to make the copies. Over time, on the next use, or if the drum is exposed to light, the image will be ERASED! Emailrevealer, You would NOT be able to read it! On the next use, or if it loses power for 1ms, the memory would be erased. Not even the fanciest lab in the FBI could ever determine what was on it! If you want a trillion copies, you can just reimage the drum from the buffer.

They DON'T need a drive! I bet they put them in to archive, fax(Faxes may be sent out in a different order due to busy numbers and workload), and maybe track employee usage. NONE should apply at kinkos.

There IS something known as an "expectation of privacy". Violating THAT is tantamount to your INTENTIONALLY publishing in a book!

And they can't blame ME for going to kinkos because the GOVERNMENT asks for something I can't provide because the PRINTER MFGs use the ink they do.

Steve

One of the main reasons which makes a drive necessary is that complex documents can be produced. For example 20 pages can be fed into the copiers automatic document feeder at once, with the machine then programmed to produce say 30 copies of that 20 page document as a booklet, folded and stapled.

The copier makes the booklets one after the other, and so each page is effectively written to the drum for each copy in turn, and this process is repeated as many times as there are booklets needed ( in this example 30 times ).

As the 20 pages ( in this example ) are fed through the document feeder, they are scanned page by page and the scan data is stored on the hard drive.
The data from the hard drive is the written to the drum from the hard drive as needed.

Basically a hard drive would not be needed if we were copying one page at a time.

For large jobs volatile RAM memory could be used instead of a hard drive with greater security ,for large jobs a very large amount of RAM would be needed and this would be very expensive compared with the cost of a hard drive.

An obvious solution would be to ensure that the contents of the hard drive are encrypted and that the pages would be de-crypted on the fly as they are being written to the image drum - this would cause extra expense and complexity from the point of view of the photocopy manufacturer - who only care about their bottom line.

Greg

I watched this show or similar a couple of years ago on tv.

It doesn't matter how hard you try to protect your scanned personal info. with these copy machines.

Think about the thousands of loan companies that copy your data & you never know about it (auto loans, real estate loans, etc...).

They need to ban the hard drives on all copy machines, period.