Xerox is now saying that some of its scanners can alter numbers in documents, even at the highest resolution setting. It blames a software bug for which it does not yet have a fix. “We continue to work tirelessly and diligently to develop a software patch to address the problem,” the company said in an Aug. 11 statement.
The problem came to light when German computer scientist David Kriesel scanned a construction plan on a Xerox machine and noticed that it changed numbers on some of the room measurements.
Would you notice such a thing? I'm not sure I would.
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Seems appropriate that it took a German to notice it.
ReplyDeleteAnd are people aware that modern photocopiers keep a copy of everything on their hard drive, so that there are date security issues?
Sackers - I wondered if the copiers were also doing some character recognition too. That would allow the hard drive to be searched by content.
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