[Cryptography] Magnetic media destruction question

[Kent Borg]

On 1/11/26 4:27 PM, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> I saw the two-hundred-page demo four years ago, on a book shredded 
> into 5mm square chunks. Instead of physically handling all the 
> confetti, they tossed one handful at a time into a device that 
> alternated for a few minutes  between taking images of it, however it 
> landed, and "puffing" air under it to make it land differently.

Cool!

But the mechanical aspect needs nice, dry, regular confetti.

If one wants to be extra safe, further abuse (post processing) of the 
chaff is necessary. It is easy to make it much more expensive to 
reconstruct things (water down, maybe mix in other nasty stuff, squish 
out air, let it rot for a time) to impossible (pulp the the chaff into a 
slurry).

-kb