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If you copy your personal documents on PUBLIC COPIERS...............watch this.........

http://www.wimp.com/copymachines/

That's interesting Woody, and if it isnt a spoof then it is a bit worrying.

What I dont understand, is why the copier would need to retain the image on the hard drive after it has created the photocopy, or sent the fax, why doesnt it simply delete the data as soon as it is finished using it.? Leaving it on the drive serves no purpose other than wasting hard drive space. It's the lack of logic in retaining the data on the drive that makes me wonder if it-s a spoof.

PhilM2 wrote:That's interesting Woody, and if it isnt a spoof then it is a bit worrying.

What I dont understand, is why the copier would need to retain the image on the hard drive after it has created the photocopy, or sent the fax, why doesnt it simply delete the data as soon as it is finished using it.? Leaving it on the drive serves no purpose other than wasting hard drive space. It's the lack of logic in retaining the data on the drive that makes me wonder if it-s a spoof.

Not a spoof unless The Congressman was in on it too! :lol:
http://consumerist.com/2010/04/is-your- ... theft.html

Thinking about it a bit more, maybe I've answered my own question :
Maybe the copier does erase the file after it has finished using it, in the normal sense. i.e. it reassignes the space on the drive as free ( as in windaow explorer when you delete a file ), but the date remains until the data of another file is written to that area of the disc. So if you had some suitable software you could recover the data.

The link appears to have gone. :?

Red Diamond wrote:The link appears to have gone. :?

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