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Unshredder software reconstructs torn-up documents, corporate crooks beware
There you are, sitting pretty, all confident and relaxed about that stack of documents you shredded last week. Nobody’s ever going to see that stuff! Think again. Now everyone can do what spies and Iranian carpet weavers have been doing for years: recover shredded documents.
While reconstructing shredded documents qualifies as the most tedious work on the planet, Unshredder makes it a whole lot easier, using fancy scanning tech and a bit of artificial intelligence to catch those obfuscators red-handed.
Unshredder is still tedious, though. You must first paste all the torn-up pieces onto transparent trays, and after you’ve scanned both sides of them, the Unshredder sorts it all out from there. Take a look at a video of the software in action:
Let’s hope the company is better at developing software than it is at producing videos. Nor is it clear if the software can put together confetti-like shredded papers, which has actually been done by determined investigators. All this black-ops work doesn’t come cheap — you pay a licensing fee of $950 per year to use it. Patience not included.
Via Unshredder
By EnOne at 12:04 PM ON 05/29/08
This should be good news for the unshredding project going on in Germany.
By Traveler at 12:11 PM ON 05/29/08
This is good news for no one except criminals.
By polo at 6:45 AM ON 06/02/08
great software for investigators,available for one month trial for 90$
By unshredder at 2:59 PM ON 07/12/08
Unshredder-New Shredded Document Reconstruction Software This new working tool was developed by experienced private investigators to Reconstruct Shredded Documents in the most comfortable and clean way
By hvm at 7:10 AM ON 09/12/08
nice
By Fazal Maji at 4:59 PM ON 05/13/09
The German government had sponsored such a program to unshred the Stasi (former East German secret police) files from the Communist regime, so yes, there are legitimate applications.
Iranians had used a lower-tech method for the files seized from the US Embassy during the 1979 "Islamic" revolution - they hired carpet-weavers used to painstaking manual work and set them to stitch the documents together. Reportedly they have a museum where you can buy these reconstituted documents as souvenirs.
That's why strip-cut shredders are not worth jack. I use a Staples microcut shredder that produces clippings essentially the same size as sawdust.
By spyphone software at 9:30 AM ON 12/24/09
thats really a cool software, it can be a very handy tool at times!
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