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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>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?

The general intention here is not to **hide** something but to restrict and control **access**.
That’s trivially easy with physical documents and impossible with digital files.