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San Francisco Team Wins DARPA's De-Shredding Contest

Posted by timothy on from the california-v-greenwood-1988 dept.

New submitter karlnyberg writes with an update to the recently announced de-shredding challenge posted by DARPA: "The team 'All Your Shreds Are Belong To U.S.' has correctly solved all five puzzles, and the Challenge has now ended. You may view the winning team's submissions as well as the complete puzzle solutions by following the links on our homepage. We recognize that many of our participants have devoted countless hours to painstakingly piecing our puzzles back together, and we truly appreciate everyone's efforts. Hopefully you enjoyed the Challenge and learned something new along the way. We certainly did!"

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  1. Jackasses by masternerdguy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Thanks for helping the government spy on me.

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  2. Ob Rainbow's End reference by AceJohnny · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Vernor Vinge's 2006 novel Rainbow's End explained how a library was being digitized by shredding all the books, thus destroying the analog knowledge.

    One step closer...

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  3. As I said before... by damn_registrars · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't see this being very useful for overseas operations. They mentioned before this would be good for recovering documents shredded by "warlords' operations" but that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. Many of the warlords we are most concerned about right now have such a dramatically different sense of morality than our own that they use rape as a weapon - or tool, really - of war.

    Why, then, would we expect them to use a shredder for their documents, when they can much more easily set fire to the documents? No amount of de-shredding is going to put back together documents that have been incinerated.

    I suspect we are much more likely to see this used by the FBI than the CIA or DOD.

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  4. Explanation of strategy for the Shredder Challenge by De+Lemming · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here's a nice explanation of the participant which reassembled four of the five documents, finishing in third place.

    You should probably start burning your mail: What I learned from the DARPA Shredder Challenge.