[ARRL-OK] This will scare you!!! I never knew this...Copying Machine... important information

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2010 02 May 10:35 -0500, D C *Mac* Macdonald wrote:
> 
> I had never thought about this until I just received it in a
> forwarded email.

Oh boy...

> How many of you would have thought that a copying machine would need
> a hard drive similar to what you have in your computers???
> 
> I had always assumed that when you placed a document into a
> copying Machine, the scan would be transferred directly to the
> copy paper.

Where else is the scan stored?  Think about it.  When a many sheet
document is put in the feed tray and then multiple copies are printed
after only ONE scan, where is it stored?  Thin air?  Magic pixie dust?
The plug in the wall?  Some alternate dimension?  It has to be stored
*someplace*, doesn't it?

> While this is how older machines worked it is Not so with MODERN copiers!!!

Well, duh, it's a modern copier.  When's the last time we talked around
the mimeograph machine?

> This has awesome ramifications as described in the attached video
> of a CBS investigation. Check it out at the below web address.

Give me ONE good reason why I should trust *anything* CBS has to say on
anything?

> It will blow your mind and you need to tell everyone you know about
> this. Makes you wonder what the people at Kinko or the US Postal
> Service do with their coin operated machines that some of you may
> use for your importan documents!!!

Blah, blah, blah, typical alarmist email drivel which right away sets my
BS meter to s9+ 60dB.

> And what about all the copiers where you work and where your pay, health,
> and other personal information is run through these copiers!

If one will take the time to think a bit, the world isn't so scary.
Besides, most of our personal data isn't as important as we'd like to
think it is as most of us aren't as important as we'd like to think we
are.  Besides, the thieves have much easier, simpler, and more fool
proof methods of getting one's personal data than a craps shoot from
temporary files on some copier.

> SCARY AS HELL!!!

Not quite.  Not even by a long shot.

73, de Nate >>

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