Hi Udhay, Even before the advent of computers ( and improvement of algorithms to do this), similiar thing has happened in the past. It was for the US, apparently Iranians have reconstructed large fractions of documents which Americans had shredded (embasy incident). Lesson's from the past missed by Stasi. regards Anish
On Jan 20, 2008 12:57 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very cool, and very thought-provoking. Shades of > both Brin's Transparent Society, and the librarian from _Snow Crash_ in > here. > > Just like digital data is only considered safely > erased when the substrate (e.g, a hard disk) is > irrecoverably destroyed, so too, here. > > Anybody recall the last line from _The Dead Past_? ;-) > > Udhay > > <http://www.thestar.com/News/article/295655>
