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The Panama Papers were 11.5 million documents that were leaked all at once -- If a piece of paper is .1mm thick, that stack would be 1.15km tall. If a single p
by mikeyouse 10y ago
The Panama Papers were 11.5 million documents that were leaked all at once -- If a piece of paper is .1mm thick, that stack would be 1.15km tall. If a single piece of copy paper weighs 5 grams, double-sided printing 11.5 million documents would produce a stack that weighs almost 30 metric tons.
Point taken though, one of the bigger stories of the campaign was the billion dollar loss that Trump claimed on his taxes in the mid-1990s. That came to WaPo and NYtimes via USPS and just landed in their mailboxes.
- iamatworknow 10y agoCouldn't one take that many documents and throw them on a flash drive (or even a hard drive if it's on the order of terabytes) and mail that? I'm certainly no security expert but wouldn't the risk in terms of using the drive/files to identify you be about the same for mailed physical media compared to it being sent electronically, but with decreased risk of interception along the way?
- dredmorbius 10y agoCDs, DVDs, BluRay, flash drives, and hard drives are all mailable. Panama Papers did in fact arrive on a HD IIRC.