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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Same reason a basic $30 door lock from Home Depot is more secure than a $300 Schlage wifi door lock.

It all has to do with the scope of vulnerability. If the information only exists as a physical object, its scope of vulnerability is the physical vicinity of the object. If it exists as a digital copy, the scope of vulnerability is: every single device that could conceivably connect to the same network that hosts the device where the digital copy is stored.