Why would physical copies of classified documents need to be retained when high speed scanners can create digital copies that are much easier to hide?

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Why would physical copies of classified documents need to be retained when high speed scanners can create digital copies that are much easier to hide?

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I can do you one better, there’s a hard drive in Xerox machines. There are people who lease used Xerox machines and go through the hard drive for private data. I saw this on an expose and the Xerox that they used was from a police station.