14:00 At the Fraunhofer Institute have found a way to read the documents after Shredder | |
| German scientists have learned with the help of sophisticated computer algorithms to recover deleted files and shredders have decided therefore to recover classified documents of the secret police of East Germany. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and it became clear that the regime of East Germany finished Stasi employees with Shredder tried to destroy all human intelligence materials. About 16,250 bags containing about 45 million shredders destroyed documents were found and confiscated after the reunification of Germany in 1990. Work to restore the documents began 12 years ago, but 24 people were able to recover the contents of only 323 sacks. With such rates would restore all the documents 30 people would be engaged from 600 to 800 years. The researchers hope that they can recover documents from 400 bags for 2 years, using new computer technology, proposed by the Fraunhofer Institute. If the search project in which the state has allocated $ 8.53 million, will be successful, scientists will be able to recover the contents of all bags for four or five years. Using the developed 15 years ago, an algorithm to help decipher barely legible lists of Nazi concentration camp victims, each cut strip will be scanned on each side. After this data will be transferred to a computer for decryption using color recognition, structural analysis, shape recognition, machine and handwriting analysis. Broken hand the documents is not expected to create special problems for detection because it can pick up the pieces of paper together to form, as is done in the puzzles. Connection shredders cut documents requires the analysis of the handwriting on the surface of the fragments. The Institute has successfully gathered together in a similar way damaged documents for tax administration in Germany. | |
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