From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 93 09:38:47 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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>I have personally reconstructed many shredded
>documents done with commercial-grade shredders.  It's extremely easy and
>I wonder why the "security conscious" even bother with the waste of
>time.

Cost.

It's much more expensive to read a shredded document than an integral
one.  As always, though, if the expense to reconstruct is smaller than
the value of the documents, one should use a better method.

Eric