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Re: Burning papers
On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 11:56:20AM -0800, Bill Stewart wrote:
> At 12:19 PM 1/25/98 -0600, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
> >Just for your information, I _WAS_ mistaken. The papers burned really
> >well. My confusion about burnability of papers arose because in the
> >past I tried to burn magazines, and not papers and letters. The whole
> >big box is gone, after two burns. Burning is unquestionably better than
> >shredding.
>
> There are shredders, and then there are shredders. The SOHO-sized
> shredders that just cut things into ribbons aren't very thorough
> (and it's been demonstrated that documents shredded that way can
> be reassembled by sufficiently large numbers of Iranian college students)
> but they're good prep for burning the papers.
> On the other hand, the cross-cut shredders that leave flakes no more
> than 1/8" rectangles or even smaller chad are good enough for
> classified documents.
Maybe some classified documents. Certainly not for some others.
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