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Monday, December 05, 2011

Puzzling

It was a dream come true for jigsaw puzzle enthusiasts. A team based in San Francisco has claimed a $50,000 prize for successfully un-shredding destroyed documents. The reward was part of a challenge staged by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA wanted to see if shredded documents recovered by U.S. forces could be pieced back together to get information. Or if enemies could put together paper shredded by U.S. forces. Turns out, they can. The winners were able to read a document cut into 6,000 bits

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