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Wow. anyone got an English free link describing this work?

• tanzam75 13y ago
  Sure, see http://www.npr.org/2012/10/08/162369606/piecing-together-the-worlds-largest-jigsaw-puzzle http://www.npr.org/2012/10/08/162369606/piecing-together-the... You don't even need computers to piece together shredded work. Iran pieced together the shredded US Embassy documents by hand, and China pieced together shredded Soviet atomic bomb documents. You just need time and lots of people. Shredded material is often not well-mixed, so there is a great deal of spatial locality. The thing that distinguishes the Stasi case is that they produced a lot more records, and German workers cost more than Iranian or Chinese workers. That's where the computers came in. These days, with cross-cut and confetti shredders, the computers would become even more important.
  • keithpeter 13y ago
    Maxwell brothers spring to mind. Panicking and using a single cut type shredder to shred documents after Captain Bob's demise. I gather assembled piece by piece over months by UK forensic science employees. They should have just had a barbecue.