I'm not sure I agree with the tactics, but I agree with the "attacker." It seems pretty obvious that the intent of the challenge was to find an efficient autom

I'm not sure I agree with the tactics, but I agree with the "attacker." It seems pretty obvious that the intent of the challenge was to find an efficient automated way of reproducing the shredded documents. The author even points out the movie where a bunch of people put together shredded documents. So everybody already knows it's possible with enough people working on it. But it's boring, labor intensive, very expensive, and doesn't scale at all. Sure, it's faster on 5 documents over a few days when everybody's excited to be competing, but how many people are going to stick around working for free for 50, 500, or 5000 documents when the system is used in real life?