Comments on: Security concern: stored images on Panasonic copier

By: dee101

dee101 — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:31:49 +0000

If you are having trouble getting at the hard drive to remove and erase, many cities have recycling companies that guarantee hard drive erasure. You might contact a couple and see if they will perform just that function for a nominal fee. One in my city will shred a hard drive for $5 or remove, erase, and reinstall for about an hour’s tech time.

By: petkoa

petkoa — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:30:39 +0000

I’ll oppose to Carlos’ opinion – nowadays hard disks of many embedded systems (e.g., DVD/TV sets) are standard ATA/SATA devices, VFAT32 formatted, and all chances are that “bad guys” will have the knowledge about copier proprietary image formats (if any)… So, when the time comes better attach the HD to a PC, fdisk and format it if the filesystem is unrecognizable, and use some good wiping software on it.

And, I also liked very much the question…

Petko

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:34:35 +0000

So, what would be the correct way to delete all stored data ?

I suppose the disk’s format/file system will not be recognized by PC OSes.

By: meandyou

meandyou — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:17:27 +0000

There is no such thing as a dumb question. It is dumb NOT to ask questions. If one person has a question, I submit that others also want to know.

By: melanieyarbrough

melanieyarbrough — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:02:50 +0000

Great question! We covered this security concern on one of our blogs a while back: http://bit.ly/bOlVCr