U.S. orders closure of Chinese consulate in Houston, angering Beijing

Re:U.S. orders closure of Chinese consulate in Houston, ange... by kediz on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @08:05PM (#23922873)

It might be a common practice for consulate to do that: Russian consulate in SF did it in 2017 in response for an eviction related to "Russian gate" [1]

The U.S used shredder to destroy document in Iran in 70s but Iranians were able to piece back the document to get intel from it so I guess the intelligence community learned a lesson there.

[1]: https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/why-was-the-russian-consu...

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Re:U.S. orders closure of Chinese consulate in Houston, ange... by fermienrico on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @09:57PM (#23923454)

Shredding is absolutely fine. The modulating factor is the size of the pieces and total number of pieces that are shuffled. The problem scales with N^2 (?).

If the shredder shreds with 1mm particles, it will be pretty much impossible to piece it together and it will depend on how each page mixes with other particles. Even if the particle size is 100mm, if you throw those pieces in a pile of 500 tons of paper, and shuffle it sufficiently, then it will be impossible to piece together the original source.

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Re:U.S. orders closure of Chinese consulate in Houston, ange... by HeavenFox on Thursday July 23, 2020 @12:35AM (#23924209)

I heard that if you have a large number of document to shred on short notice, shredder overheating becomes a real concern.

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Re:U.S. orders closure of Chinese consulate in Houston, ange... by basementcat on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @11:01PM (#23923782)

Reminded me of the DARPA Shredding Challenge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Shredder_Challenge_201...

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Re:U.S. orders closure of Chinese consulate in Houston, ange... by grugagag on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @10:17PM (#23923551)

Fire does it better

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Re:U.S. orders closure of Chinese consulate in Houston, ange... by fermienrico on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @11:05PM (#23923795)

Agreed.

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