Shredded Secret Police Files Being Reassembled

An anonymous reader writes "German researchers at the Frauenhofer Institute said Wednesday that they were launching an attempt to reassemble millions of shredded East German secret police files using complicated computerized algorithms. The files were shredded as the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and it became clear that the East German regime was finished. Panicking officials of the Stasi secret police attempted to destroy the vast volumes of material they had kept on everyone from their own citizens to foreign leaders."

Comments

Re:Human efforts?

[drgonzo59]

Tell them they get to drive through a Farmer's Market full of people by using only the accelerator pedal and they'll get it done even faster.

Cheney's Dicked

[Doc Ruby]

Now we've got something for Cheney to do after we've impeached him: dole out the tape while they reassemble all the evidence he's shredded the past 7 years.

Then we can hang him for treason.