Is office copier another security breach?

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) decided to make sure that the population is aware of important information: if you made a copy of your priests on a modern copier, then most likely this copy quietly lies on the device’s built-in hard disk, among medical, financial documents and, for example, lists of criminals who the police plan to arrest in the near future.



This story was told by guys from CBS News in April of this year. Most of the modern digital copiers produced in the last 5 years archive the copies made on the built-in hard disk, access to which can be easily obtained by strangers after the device is sold or written off. Examining several such disks, the guys from CBS found:

• List of police raid targets against drug dealers in Buffalo.
• Social numbers insurance (and the Americans are afraid to light them in panic).
• Copies of checks worth $ 40,000.

CBS investigation video:







Member of the US House of Representatives Ed Markey (Ed Markey), after the publication of this information, wrote a letter to the FTC, where he asked the commission whether she plans to do something about it.

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Commission Chairman John Leibowitz (Jon Leibowitz) recently responded to the letter , saying that they took the news very seriously.



He said that the commission had contacted vendors and vendors of copiers, and asked them whether they would notify customers or not, and whether they offer more secure archiving options. He also stated that this issue would be thoroughly explored.



These are the pies. Your copier does not behave this way? Are you sure? :)



For dessert - a funny commercial on the topic:





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