For those concerned about privacy and security...

I don't see any reason why a photo copier needs to store the image of everything it scanned. Pretty scary, I had know idea either.
 
Scott McNealy, presidene of Sun Microsystems, had this to say about it in January, 1999:

The chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems said Monday that consumer privacy issues are a "red herring."

"You have zero privacy anyway," Scott McNealy told a group of reporters and analysts Monday night at an event to launch his company's new Jini technology. "Get over it."

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/01/17538#ixzz0np1PwtQw
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I more or less agree with him. Yes, identity theft is a big deal, but there are simple things you can do to make that a lot harder than it usually is.

As an engineer, I can imagine the advantages of having a hard drive in a copy machine. Do I worry about someone downloading the contents of drive at work and going through them? Not really.... Actually, I'm surprised that anyone is surprised. Let's see....the copier is on a network and I can send it documents from my desk top, so anything I send goes over the network anyway, which is probably easier to snoop than knowing the diagnostic routines to get into the printer. And a local hard drive makes this worse?

Dunno; as soon as you give a store your name and address, any store - on line or not......it's pretty much over at that point. I suppose you can be a luddite and never use a computer or a debt card and only write checks for all you transactions. Problem is as soon as the bank gets that check, it goes into a computer, so what's the point.....???

It's like Mopheus said; "Welcome.......to the real world."
 
BlindedByScience said:
Scott McNealy, presidene of Sun Microsystems, had this to say about it in January, 1999:

The chief executive officer of Sun Microsystems said Monday that consumer privacy issues are a "red herring."

"You have zero privacy anyway," Scott McNealy told a group of reporters and analysts Monday night at an event to launch his company's new Jini technology. "Get over it."

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/01/17538#ixzz0np1PwtQw
Click to expand...
I more or less agree with him. Yes, identity theft is a big deal, but there are simple things you can do to make that a lot harder than it usually is.

As an engineer, I can imagine the advantages of having a hard drive in a copy machine. Do I worry about someone downloading the contents of drive at work and going through them? Not really.... Actually, I'm surprised that anyone is surprised. Let's see....the copier is on a network and I can send it documents from my desk top, so anything I send goes over the network anyway, which is probably easier to snoop than knowing the diagnostic routines to get into the printer. And a local hard drive makes this worse?

Dunno; as soon as you give a store your name and address, any store - on line or not......it's pretty much over at that point. I suppose you can be a luddite and never use a computer or a debt card and only write checks for all you transactions. Problem is as soon as the bank gets that check, it goes into a computer, so what's the point.....???

It's like Mopheus said; "Welcome.......to the real world."
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I agree 100% with Tom. There is no privacy in the digital world, and it is up to you to control how much of your information gets put out for everyone to see.
 
Think about this....ever make a copy of your passport?
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