"Unshredding" shredded documents is nothing new. Our client family has been hearing this warning from me for over 30 years now.
Reconstruction can be accomplished by hand; most notably, when the Iranians took over the American Embassy in Tehran around 1980 (example).
Once a back-room government parlor trick, computer automated document reconstruction is now available to the general public!
Recommendations...
Ditch every stripcut (and partial stripcut) shredder in your company. They do not provide adequate business-level information security. Use crosscut, particle-cut or pulping shredders. Alert your Purchasing Department... "No more crummy stripcut shredders!"
Resources...
• "How to Choose A Shredder" - Dahle
(Hint: Crosscut not Stripcut. Always.)
• Lynde-Ordway
• ABCO Office Solutions
• Advantage Business Equipment
• Allegheny Paper Shredders
• Ameri-Shred
• Capital Shredder Corp
• Cummins Allison Corporation
• Dahle USA
• ECCO Business Systems
• Fellowes Manufacturing Company
• GBC Shredmaster Factory Direct
• Ideal
• Industrial Paper Shredders, Inc.
• Intimus Paper Shredders
• MBM Corporation (Destroyit)
• Security Engineered Machinery
• Somat Corporation (pulping shredders)
• Whitaker Brothers
• General search (Yahoo)
Bulk wastepaper destruction companies serving your area…
• The National Association for Information Destruction, Inc.
(Search "Certified Members")
