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Something I bet you didn't know about....

Well, I didn't....

from WinCustomize Forums

This is a source of concern which I didn't know about until I saw this video clip which a friend emailed me.

I wonder how many of the machines used to copy your data...tax forms, health records, checks... well the list goes on and on... and how about the government, military, etc. are being sent who knows where without those HDD's being wiped?

I wonder who uses these "formerly owned or rented" copying machines now?

Also...there's not too damned much any of us can do about it, even if we did know.

 

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Hey Doc you can't have all the fun.;)

Here's another tip from the Wiz:

Typewriter ribbon is another good source of personal data, everything you typed can be read off of one. Keep that in mind the next time you throw one out.

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Absolutely correct, Wiz... I just haven't used one of those in decades. In fact, it was the subject of an NCIS show in the past!

Link to the show recap. 

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Typewriter ribbon is another good source of personal data, everything you typed can be read off of one. Keep that in mind the next time you throw one out.
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What's a typewriter?

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

What's a typewriter?
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it's one of those antique things that OLD people use in place or a keyboard  and had to feed it paper Manually ... I seen one, one time at a Museum

 

ha ha ha ha ha ha }:)    

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

DisturbedComputer is itchin' for a fight. Too bad I'm too old to remember how to....what was I trying to say? I can't remember. :(

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

it's one of those antique things that OLD people use
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hehe}:)

Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

What's a typewriter?



it's one of those antique things that OLD people use in place or a keyboard and had to feed it paper Manually ... I seen one, one time at a Museum
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'Ere, I'll 'ave you know that not all us old folks use 'em.   Some of us have modernised and use puters.... 'cept them wots as old as dirt and still use a quill and papyrus.

:-"

Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

OMG!!! And here I was thinking doctors were supposed to make you feel good! 8(|

Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top

'cept them wots as old as dirt and still use a quill and papyrus.
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You have a quill and papyrus? I still have to write things in the dirt with a stick.o_O

Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Wiz, you have a stick?! Lucky bastage!

Dirt?!  We had to scrimp and save molecules until we had enough for dirt!

 

Quoting Gammeldansk, reply 33
OMG!!! And here I was thinking doctors were supposed to make you feel good! 8(|
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Bwah-hah-hah.

 

 

Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 5

Quoting PurrBall, reply 2I'm surprised nobody knew about this earlier- just don't copy sensitive information on non-personal scanners!

Ummm...and what about people in Insurance Co.'s, I.R.S., Banks, M.D.'s offices, etc. who copy your files to send on to other offices? Think about that one, Purrball.

*edit...sorry Barb....I type slowly...and with the errors I make, thank G-d I don't work entering data/orders at the stock exchange....
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I've asked around a bit after watching this and it seems nearly every place uses copier disposal services that wipe the hard disks before reselling.

Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Or, Purrball, they saw the CBS show also. I don't think CBS would have loaded stuff on the drives just to have the expose, do you?

Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top

quill and papyrus.
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At lest it's not a stone-tablet  and chisel  :-"

Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top

At lest it's not a stone and chisel
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Funny you should say that, that's how I made my only wallpaper.  Link  :banhammer:   :D

 

Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thats it, I am not photocopying my butt anymore.

 

Reply #41 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Funny you should say that, that's how I made my only wallpaper
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is that because Photoshop wasn't around then  }:)

 

 

but it looks good

Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thats it, I am not photocopying my butt anymore.
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Don't worry, they'll not be able to see your face and won't know it's you....

... unless you've got yer name tattooed on there. :D

Reply #45 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thats it, I am not photocopying my butt anymore.
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a lot of crow.......

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Reply #46 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DaveRI, reply 8
Well that's pretty pathetic.

Seems like that "option" package with the wipe capability shouldn't be an "option", it should just be built in.  I know they said it was something like $500, but if they just built it in at the factory instead of as an add-on it probably wouldn't really add that much to the price.

'Course I would've thought that the oil industry might have given some thought to "How To Plug An Offshore Leak" before they started poking holes in the ocean floor, too.  I'm funny that way.  Guess they just figured they could drop an oversized brick on it or something.
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i am with u on this   Dave - maybe we cld drop a brick on the copy manufacturers?  lol

i think the only way 2 b really sure yr hdd is clean is to smash it with a hammer, its fun and very theraputic  :grin: