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Re:Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder by blumentopf on Friday November 11, 2011 @05:51PM (#3226457)
The German government is funding a project to algorithmically unshred the files that the Stasi (East Germany's secret police) destroyed in 1989 when the Berlin wall came down and protesters started to occupy their buildings:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6692895.stm

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Re:Instagram Engineering Challenge: The Unshredder by ppk on Friday November 11, 2011 @10:05PM (#3226997)
Yeah it was fascinating, there's a whole article on it from Wired:

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/16-02/ff_sta...

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