Replies to post #126545 on DD Support Board and Research Team

[janice shell]

When I was in grad school many decades ago, I once had a summer job working as a secretary. It occurred to me at the time that if I ever wanted to start an industrial espionage company, I'd use secretaries. They had access to all kinds of stuff, and no one ever paid any attention to what they were doing, or considered whether it was what they should be doing.

I suppose nowadays they'd be called "personal assistants".

[Zorax]

Nowadays Bud Fox could pose as a IT Tech, walk up to any of those bulk HP printers next to the law partner's office and, copying the internal memory, get a copy of every document ever printed on the printer.

Yes and no. Nowadays the list of the documents themselves is kept in readable format, the actual data of each document is either encrypted and moved to corporate IT server and or purged (from the floor printer in your dept) right away. The printer itself usually does not save the documents contents. If you have IT clearance to the printer, you would need a higher clearance to get to the corporate user data base.