deshredding

[Kragen Sitaker]

Dave Long writes:
> IIRC, the Iranians only needed about a month after seizing the US Embassy in
> Tehran to deshred the CIA documents there.  They might have succeeded faster
> with a reasonably powerful computer, but in Tehran, as in the States,
> (graduate?) student labor proved cheaper than computer time :-)

What year was that?  I think shredding technology may have changed
since then.

In particular, many documents that were intended to remain unpublished
have been shredded (in the past) by cutting them into quarter-inch-wide
strips.  Going through a trash bin of this stuff and putting it back
together is obviously not too difficult.

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