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Security quotes of the week
New York City say they found shredded police documents mixed in with confetti at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
-- UPI
The documents contained confidential information, including detectives' Social Security numbers, bank information and unveiled undercover officers' identities, WPIX-TV, New York, reported.
Letting the Internet be rewired by bureaucrats would be like handing a
Stradivarius to a gorilla.
-- L. Gordon Crovitz in The Wall Street Journal(Log in to post comments)
Security quotes of the week Posted Nov 30, 2012 15:31 UTC (Fri) by lacos (subscriber, #70616) [Link]
If SSNs could be read from the "shredded" documents, someone did a very bad job at procuring shredders.
Security quotes of the week Posted Nov 30, 2012 23:33 UTC (Fri) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link] someone did a very bad job at procuring shredders.Indeed. They shredded the documents into strips, and whoever did the shredding fed them in sideways, so each strip contained one line of text. Bruce Schneier's blog entry has some good comments. More worrisome, though, is that a DARPA challenge has now given us OCR-assisted shred reassembly, good against cross-cut shreds. If you're worried about a large entity (nation-state, corporation, police department) reading your stuff, burning is the only way to do it. (Back when I worked at a facility with classified documents, there was a very rusty 55-gallon drum out back for precisely that purpose. :-)
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