Photocopiers are security threats
March 23rd, 2007 , by amitagwlI always thought that Fax machines, corporate scanners and printers can be security threats but never thought a photocopier is something that I should handle with care! Here is an interesting article - Photocopiers can be security threats
“Sharp, one of leading manufacturers of industrial photocopiers, issued a press release this week, just in time for tax season. Sharp commissioned a survey of 1,005 adults in January 2007 and found half of those contacted did not realize copiers posed a significant security risk. Additionally, 54 percent of the respondents didn’t realize that photocopiers stored images of the documents they had reproduced. And a majority of the 54 percent thought photocopying and mailing sensitive documents was safer than providing similar information over the Internet.”
I saw a documentary on History channel once. It claimed the CIA planted a prism sort of piece in a window of KGB establishment. CIA then used some lasers pointed to that window prism and it will return the laser beam modulated with the voice! So security is compromised everywhere in the new developed world. Photocopiers, Google Earth, Personalized portals, Social bookmarking websites, Photo sharing like Flickr, Picasa- we have so much of personal information on the web that can be used to reveal the information that we might not have intended to share with others.
