Thoughts 06 Apr 2008 01:37 pm
You shredded the evidence and now you think you’re safe -Fool!
The are a number of companies that offer reconstruction of shredded documents for a price.
It doesn’t matter if you use a cross cut or a diamond cut shredder they can de-shred your most precious secrets..
(Strip cutters don’t really count as security. Given a table, tape and some patients, anyone can put the document back together.)
ChurchStreet Technology has been doing reconstruction of documents for a number of years.
On a tough job it will probably run you $100 per page.
Given that the average home or office shredder has a bag capacity of between six and ten gallons of small pieces of paper this becomes astronomically expensive.
It’s not the sort of thing you are going to do casually, but if you work at some branch office of an unnamed federal agency or are spying on your business competitor the cost can be justified.
For the do it yourselfers in the crowd there’s unshredder software. A license will set you back $950 plus the specialized paper trays they want to sell you.
If you feel the need to slow the Feds or the competition down, and don’t want to use a policy of shred, burn and flush, get a security level 6 shredder.
While I’ve never done business with the company, Factory Express handles handles a wide variety of level 6 shredders at what appear to be fair prices.
A shredder alone will not stop the FBI, your business partner or future ex-wife from reading your mail, but you can sure as shit make them work for it.