Copy Machine Warning

Where's BigRed, he works on those things.

I work for the DoD.
All the copiers in our building are from like the early 90s.
Why? it's not liek we don't have any money....
No built in hard drives.
 
Yeah, I work on 'em too. The real trick is having the software and ability to extract the images. Some manufacturers are also using that "ability" to match images with money to stop counterfitting.
 
Not all copiers have a hard drive but use some form of "ram" to temporarily store data while in use. Usually the medium duty and larger copiers have hard drivesas well as some small ones. I mainly serviced HP and some Cannon and I remember data security was why some of my former customers chose those brands. I have been out of the game for a while so things certainly may have changed though.
 
RatLabGuy said:
Where's BigRed, he works on those things.
I work for the DoD.
All the copiers in our building are from like the early 90s.
Why? it's not liek we don't have any money....
No built in hard drives.
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You sure? During the cold war americans had a setup rigged in the copy machine of the Russian Embassy that would snap a shot of anything being copied and store it, the photos were removed by the "copy repair mechanic" almost weekly.

;) Fascinating stuff.
 
Knew that, why we have to pull all hard drives out of all copiers before they leave my job site.
 
Wow, Think of all the SSNs that I have run thru the copying machine at work. I wonder what kind of safeguards the mil has on our crap.
 
sgtbriangreen said:
Wow, Think of all the SSNs that I have run thru the copying machine at work. I wonder what kind of safeguards the mil has on our crap.
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Well I know for us, if you want a copier, there are about 3 total you are allowed to choose from. All provided by the same company and thoroughly checked out before delivery.

When we turn in computers, they pull the hard drives and literally drill holes through them. Then they go in a pile for shredding.

Our paper shredders are hilarious, they cut both ways (not strps, into tiny squares. And I mean like 1 mm squares. Paper dust. Of course anything classified goes someplace else.
 
hell, the cia figured out that the IBM typewriters put out a specific frequency for each keystroke. a man with an electronic device could sit outside of a building and record every keystroke of someone typing a letter and know exactly what it said. thats why the pentagon has a hollow void in its wall. to absorb those signals.

we had a customer buy a data erase kit the other day for his copier. the software to erase the data is already in the copier, he pays a few hundred bucks...we email him a liscense code to enter into his machine..and Bingo. the data erase kit is installed.

Alot of copiers have a USB storage deviced plugged into their main board. pop off the back cover...snag that device and roll!

there are some panasonic and brother fax machines that use thermally activated carbon film to print on. the problem with that is..when the roll is out......you have a negative image of every fax you have recieved using that roll....and most people just throw it out.


Shredders are pretty cool machines. we can turn a stack of 400lbs of paper into a dumpser full of confetti.
 
I am in this industry (sales side) as well and it can be a huge revenue for our company since for our manufacturer the fix is about 500 dollars to install overwrite software. We have been getting a few calls about it but nothing major yet. Everyone is talking about it but still not doing anything about it
 
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