While I was doing some searching online, I read an article the other day by Ben Rothke that was all about paper shredding. It was not about the cross cut paper shredder on its own, however there is a small section devoted to some of the benefits of cross cut paper shredding as opposed to strip cut shredding. The general tone of the article was more about the general mindset behind the practice - from a security point of view and how it was now possible to more easily reconstruct shredded documents.

We all know ID theft is supposed to be on the rise, and some of us have heard about friends of friends who have been a victim of this. However this article tries to draw a line midway between being paranoid and being careful about what you throw away. It does illustrate the need to be more thoughtful about your documents and how you dispose of them.

What I found particularly interesting was that the author describes how a company has made a business out of piecing back together the strips from both strip shredders and also the smaller pieces from a cross cut paper shredder. I think that most of us feel that it is not viable for our competitors to raid our garbage and have our shreds reconstructed. Not so however, as this company first scans the pieces, gives each a unique id number and then uses software to reconstruct the pages.

This is an interesting article about document security issues and how it is possible after using strip cut shredders or even the cross cut paper shredder, your sensitive information may be able to be reconstructed. Read the article here.

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