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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A document made of a specific paper, pre made header that certify it is a document made for secret service, typewrited so no one can alter it or make a fake one as you can check if the typewriter footprint is correct, and you add a signature at the bottom. You have phisical possession of it, if someone wants to get to it, the person has to phisically come to you and take it.
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Something on a screen any decent high school student can falsify, tamper, copy and sell on internet, no traceability of how many copies there are, no way to prove it’s not fake or tampered. Basically, a fancy screenshot with no value.
I’m not an expert of secret services, but in my work I have been challenged by an authority auditor because the papers we got, printed and signed, were too clean (I mean physically clean) to have been actually used during the job those documents should have guided. And in fact, they were re printed cause my boss said they were too messy. The auditor spotted in a second it wasn’t the original material. We now comply and submit the dirty original documents. I hope this example underlines how much a proper hard copy is an evidence of facts compared to a digital scan.
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