It's not FUD. Copiers have hard drives, which often store things that users copy, or use as document templates.
Trashing the hard drive before disposing of them is good practice, especially if they're leased. Kurt On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 07:49, David Mazzaccaro <[email protected]> wrote: > This article is full of FUD. Read the comments... > Here's the link.. it was CBS... > http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/19/eveningnews/main6412439.shtml > > ________________________________ > From: David McSpadden [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 10:47 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Copier Hard Drives and sensitive data? > > Operations Officer comes to me this morning and asks if we wipe our copiers > clean before we give them away or throw them away. > > I say we clean everything before we ever let it go out of our department but > why are you asking about copiers. He proceeds to tell me about a 20/20 or > 60 minutes spot where some person but 5 copiers and got all kinds of > personal info from police departments and what not’s because copiers have > hard drives in them and they retain everything that is copied to them over > time. > > > > So, is this true? > > > > If so is there a way to ‘clean’ them before reselling them or trashing them > and still keeping them functional? > > > > > > > > > > . > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
