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DARPA scanned the shreds. The funny thing is, they didn't want to shred the original paper, so first they photocopied the paper in a high quality color copier, shredded it, and scanned it. And that's where the little yellow dots came from. :D

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dylan604 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

interesting. now my brain is churning on why would they not want the originals shredded. what does that say about the value they placed on the originals? why would they open a contest up with documents of such perceived value as the content? being DARPA, i'm sure there's a reason though

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otaviogood 2 days ago | parent [-]

You might be reading into it too much. I think the originals were just random pieces of different kinds of paper. Graph paper, yellow lined, paper, blank white paper... I don't remember exactly, but I think the copies could be special paper with a colored backside so they would know which way was up really easily for the scanning process.

	▲	dylan604 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		no it was a deliberate what if meant in jest that probably really could have been kept to myself

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anitil 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Did they scan both sides of the shreds?