back in the 70s

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Over 30 years ago, I tried to get a rumor going that every photocopier had a strip of film that recorded all the images it reproduced. I left the rest to the imagination. Nobody was interested in propagating what I thought was humorous paranoia, just barely plausible.

So now it's hard fact, thanks to our computer age. Was I ahead of my time, or not paranoid enough?
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Comments

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Jeebuz. That's really shocking. I had NO idea.

K.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

You probably gave somebody the idea, and they spent the next thirty years working on implementing it.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I recall jokes about "escrowing shredders" back when (when key escrow was a hot topic).

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

One way in which older photocopiers were much better at saving data than people sometimes thought:

They tended to jam more often that today's machines.

And, they often couldn't be opened up (to remove the jam) by the regular users. Only the "key operator" (remember that term?) could do that.

When I was doing secretarial work for the phone company, I found some passingly interesting unauthorized stuff when I was cleaning out jams in the photocopiers.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Not paranoid enough. ;)

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Indeed, it's beginning to seem that it's impossible to be paranoid enough to keep up with Reality.

[meggins.livejournal.com]

Ahead of your time. Again!