Like any other gadget in this new era of computers - most people do not completely understand it or use all the items functionality.

Simple put somebody who works a Kinko's should at least know how to use the printer/photocopier to collate, doublesided papers, but the expectation to know how to upgrade a firmware, set up a printer email server, or change a password will be for naught or even answered with the question of "IT CAN DO THAT!"

Think about the gadgets in your life and what can they say or tell people about you. Do not just thing about the software thing about the hardware, too.

GPS-UNIT
Cell Phone
Computer
Oven/Toaster
Fax Machine

Slightly interesting article
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/06/11/everyday-items-hackers-targeting-right/

Besides the article below, I saw one in which randomly purchased used copiers had documents from police stations with data that should never have been allowed out.

http://www.pcdisposal.com/copier-hard-drive-security.htm

Digital copy machines contain hard drives full of private information

It’s a little known fact that nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive that stores a digital copy of what was scanned on that machine. Discarding or selling one of these digital photocopiers without having the hard disk thoroughly erased can be a security and public relations nightmare.

That’s what happened to Affinity Health Plan, a New York insurance company. When CBS News purchased randomly selected copy machines from a used copier warehouse in New Jersey, the insurance company was a previous owner of one of the copiers and the photocopy machine’s harddrive was loaded with 300 pages of individual medical records. They included everything from drug prescriptions, to blood test results, to a cancer diagnosis. A potentially serious breach of federal privacy law.

http://www.buffalonews.com/incoming/article44180.ece

Buffalo officials are trying to figure out why police information was left on the hard drives of two of the department’s old copy machines, which have turned up as part of an investigation by CBS News.

CBS, which this week telecast a report about the resale of used digital photocopiers, purchased four at New Jersey warehouse. Two of them had been leased by the Buffalo Police Department.

Stored on one of the hard drives were details involving domestic-violence complaints along with a list of wanted sex offenders.

Another computer contained a list of targets from a drug raid three years earlier.

There is a way to clear the memory and keep the copier from storing this info, but it's a huge pain in the ass. I've been trying to do the one here at work for a couple weeks now, but it seems to take several hours to clear, and of course then I have ten people trying to make copies who are pissed off because I took the thing offline. Grrr.

May I recommend Darik's Boot and Nuke for scrubbing your computers when you decide to dispose of them? in auto-nuke mode, it will boot your computer from CD, and then wipe all drives attached.

I use it at work for scrubbing computers and hard drives before bundling them off to Surplus Property for final disposition. And yes, that means I'll remove the copier's hard drive and attach it to a computer for scrubbing.

Being...thorough...I use the military-grade wipe boot options of "prng rounds=8". It may take all night, but I don't much care.

If you need a bit more catharsis than Darth's method afford you, simply remove any hard-drive and thoroughly destroy it with a hammer. That way you can put every frustration about every technology that you've had problems with into every blow. This works even at a company, because believe me, people have pent up frustrations. The point is just to realize that memory must be addressed.

IRA: Complete overkill, especially the repeated wipes.

As far as anyone can tell, nobody has ever successfully recovered data that was actually overwritten.

If you're not expecting an actual deliberate and dedicated attack to retrieve your data, simply deleting it and reformatting will be more effective than necessary.

(And as Swiss said, the real high-security solution is to just physically destroy the drive.)

The other one that I see all the time -- Go to your local Salvation Army/ Goodwill store -- Look at the computers they are selling off. How much do want to bet they weren't wiped.

Granted they are probably low value targets -- but will probably have personal data on them as well.

I use css on my site, am I right in assuming that this plugin will run, I'm still a beginner so maybe that's a stupid question. Here's my Cairns website if anyone would like to tell me what I'm doing wrong.