The newer shredders in use by the US agencies after the Iran incident use pulping and chemical destruction. Now if the US government were to ever need to hide secrets, they'd do it better than the Stazi... just saying. And, Germany's automatic unshredder is just the largest and the most automated, certainly not the first.
BTW, If it was really that secret, it shouldn't have ever been put down on paper, you know. Cheeni On Jan 20, 2008 7:37 PM, Anish Mohammed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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> >
