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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This thread is way off track. Paper copies exist because that is how old people read stuff, and it’s convenient to provide to executives like POTUS that way. Paper is not better. Anyone with access can read it, scan it, take a picture.

I store all documents for my personal affairs electronically, secured, encrypted. And so does the govt and everyone else. paper copies are for distribution, or some archival purposes. Paper copies are a liability not a benefit.