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Copy Machines: Finding the Line Between Panic and Practice

Yesterday I received an email from my sister. She had come across this video from CBS News:

(if you don’t want to watch the video you can read the accompanying story here)

The point of the story is simple: almost every copy machine in service today has a hard drive in it, and every copy that gets made gets saved to that hard drive. This means that when you take personal documents to a copy center to reproduce them you’re leaving a copy behind, and it also means (for example) that when your personal information is used in completely normal and legal ways at insurance companies they are leaving copies behind unless they take steps to do something about it.

Where Do You Get Your News? The Daily Show? ABC? Answer Guy?

Back in 1997, I did TV for CBS News, when The Computer Answer Guy was a talking head for their overnight national program Up To The Minute. In the spirit of nostalgia, here I am, with then-anchor Nanette Hansen:

Jeff Yablon, The Computer Answer Guy, on CBS-TV News' Up To The Minute Jeff Yablon, The Computer Answer Guy, with CBS-TV News' Nanette Hansen on Up To The Minute

Here’s the story, and why I’m telling it now: UTTM was produced and ran in the 2AM to 6AM time slot, because it was cheap. Or at least that’s what the production staff told me when I was there. Literally, the news broadcast that a couple of dozen people turned out every night cost less to produce than it would have been for CBS to license and run old episodes of Gunsmoke.





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