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> Those Enron-esque cross-cut shredders don’t cut it anymore with open source machine learning that can easily reassemble those documents. That's interesting!
by delish 9y ago
> Those Enron-esque cross-cut shredders don’t cut it anymore with open source machine learning that can easily reassemble those documents.
That's interesting! When I googled for this, I found a few papers, but nothing like a git repository. Do you have more information?
- burningion 9y agoIf not, this would make a great blog post idea.
- matt4077 9y agoI remember there was also a big effort to reassemble the shredded files by the German Stasi after the fall of the wall, both algorithmically and manually. Not sure if those efforts are ongoing, but it could be another avenue to explore if you are interested.
- satori99 9y agoI recently read that the digital scanning of shredded Stasi documents ran into some technical trouble; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/03/stasi-files-east-germany-archivists-losing-hope-solving-worlds-biggest-puzzle https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/03/stasi-files-ea...