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There's a famous anecdote about human unshredding: when the Iranian revolutionary took over the US embassy in 1979, they captured the shredded remains of secret
by snotrockets 15y ago
There's a famous anecdote about human unshredding: when the Iranian revolutionary took over the US embassy in 1979, they captured the shredded remains of secret documents. They took those shredding to the carpet weavers Iran is so famous of, who manually rewoven the shreds into the original documents (See http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Documents_seized_from_the_U.S._Embassy_in_Tehran/Shredded_Documents http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Documents_seized_from_the_U.S....)
- systrom 15y agoThis is a pretty amazing story. Thanks for sharing! I wasn't inspired by this when I wrote it up, but it looks like it's not the first time it's crossed someone's mind.
- blumentopf 15y agoThe German government is funding a project to algorithmically unshred the files that the Stasi (East Germany's secret police) destroyed in 1989 when the Berlin wall came down and protesters started to occupy their buildings: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6692895.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6692895.stm
- ppk 15y agoYeah it was fascinating, there's a whole article on it from Wired: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/16-02/ff_stasi?currentPage=all http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/16-02/ff_sta...
- nikcub 15y agoI thought the point of this exercise was going to be to produce an Instagram filter that creates that awesome 'shredded' effect as seen in those real shredded documents. Turns out they are just splitting images up and rearranging them - not as interesting. (see for eg. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/File:Espionage_den02_79.png http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/File:Espionage_den02_79.png)