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Comment by blhack | Hacker News Reader

Yes.

It has gotten even easier to do now...

If you need to have something be permanently "shredded", you should consider a "high security" shredder. That is, one that not only shreds vertically, but horizontally as well. After that is finished, but the little pieces into water and turn it into mash.

The other option is using acid, or....

not writing things down that will get you put in prison.

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not writing things down that will get you put in prison.

Well, that's just unreasonable. Everyone has to write things down that would get them thrown in prison, right?

Right?

«Que l'on me donne six lignes écrite de la main de l'homme le plus honnête, et je trouverai de quoi le faire pendre !»

("Give me six lines from the hand of the most honest man, and I will find in them a reason to hang him!")

-- Cardinal de Richelieu, Mirame

Well writing your secrets in French will probably keep them safe in America, but not in other countries.

But by diamond shredding you are only increasing N the same method of reconstruction by edge analysis still works. Like nuking from orbit, burning, pulping, or other method of complete destruction is the only way to be safe.

Or a lighter, perhaps.

It is typically not feasible to burn a large amount of paper inside of an office without anyone noticing. You could turn the paper into mash in an office. You could not do the same by burning it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/19/cheney-office-fire_...

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

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