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Eric Lawton

@jonty

That reminds me of the machine used to reconstruct the files shredded by the former East German Stasi as the Berlin Wall fell.

'E-Puzzler' ends painstaking manual restoration of torn secret police documents
theguardian.com/world/2007/may

@szescstopni

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Tom Tom

@EricLawton @jonty @szescstopni actually, according to the guardian, that e-puzzler machine had already in 2007 been put to use to reconstruct banknotes : "the machine was put to a wide range of uses - [...], and to piece together hundreds of thousands of bank notes shredded by a mother in an attempt to block her estranged daughter from her inheritance".

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