KPIX, the CBS affiliate for the San Francisco market, reported about the documents that you've left behind in your copier.
Guess what is common about the copies that you make, the faxes you send and receive. They're still in the copier. Once that copier has left the building, either by end of lease, repossession, or sale, the documents are still available to the next person who operates the machine. That person may be at a competing company, a remarketer's facility, or in China.
Wiping the hard drives inside the machine will make the machine unusable, as the operating system for the copier is on the hard drive, and in many cases, features like print, scan, or fax, or even the machine's serial number are encoded on the hard drive.
If this security breach explodes as much as CBS wants it to, since it came out at the beginning of February Sweeps, the manufacturers will need to take care of the issue, but it will probably become the liability of the remarketers or retailers. Only time will tell.
See the video here: http://cbs5.com/video/?id=61266@kpix.dayport.com
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