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| Shredded East German secret police files being reassembled by computer |
| 2007-05-10 |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #9 Shred than burn. It's a simple two-part process. I would have thought Germans, East Germans would have been a bit more thorogh. This is Germany! Alphabetise then Shred. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-05-10 18:42 |
| #8 If you want to read some stories of what life might have been like in East Germany I can recommend Stasiland It's written with a person's story per chapter, showing the madness of the whole crazy thing as it touched the people at the bottom. |
| Posted by: Whavinter Sproing5641 2007-05-10 18:22 |
| #7 I believe the Pentagon takes their shredded documents, dumps them in a vat of water, pulps them, then presses them into a solid block. |
| Posted by: Steve 2007-05-10 15:20 |
| #6 The re-assembly isn't mechanical - scans of the fragments are pattern recognized and algorithms re-assemble the scan pieces like a digital jigsaw puzzle. Still, cross-cut shredding would make the process harder, slower and more error prone, but if you've got the time and the cpu cycles, it can be done. Burn to be sure... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-05-10 14:53 |
| #5 Have they found...The Recipe? |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-05-10 14:11 |
| #4 Guess they didn't have the latest cross-cut shredders. Nobody reassembles that confetti. |
| Posted by: Steve 2007-05-10 12:55 |
| #3 Not for communist Germans. Communism pushes for the lowest common denominator so everyone does just the bare minimum. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-05-10 12:20 |
| #2 Shred than burn. It's a simple two-part process. I would have thought Germans, East Germans would have been a bit more thorogh. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-05-10 11:18 |
| #1 Kewl. I think a similar program is being used to assemble the thousands of fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-05-10 07:37 |