Are photocopiers evil?

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canon-copier-copy-3.pngCBS News recently aired a story Copy Machines, a Security Risk?, which reveals that a large number of photocopiers are resold and that they contain hard disks that have sucked in and stored images of the copies made by its former owner.

It's actually a pretty scary story for anyone that has copied anything that they might not want the world to know about. I wonder how many people recently have copied this year's tax return? Or perhaps your tax preparer made a copy on a machine that has been resold?  Just think about all of things that might be stored on copiers at your local Kinkos.

Steve Gibson, author of the venerable hard disk scanning and recovery application SpinRite, discusses this revelation along with other security-related news in a recent episode of Security Now.

While much of this risk, sadly, is outside of our control, this might be a good time to download Eraser or Darik's Boot And Nuke.

Underscore misunderstanding

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There have been quite a few debates over the years regarding the use of underscore, hyphens, WikiStyle naming, and other schemes for the naming of files and directories.  I've never been a fan of using underscores.

Sometimes a simple screen capture says it best:

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A new beginning

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This is, depending on how you'd count such things, my third or fourth weblog.  I've decided for several reasons to ditch wordpress.  After looking over a few other options, I've decided to come back to movabletype.  It's licensing has become much friendlier over the past couple years, and I always did prefer to have my weblogs baked vs fried.

Hopefully, there'll be some content here soon with more to communicate than my love of 18% gray.