Enron shred party happening now at USAID
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"shred" I understand it might be a figure of speech, but who still works with paper? Isn't everything somewhere on a network? And in 2025, I assume there'll be redundancy in off site backups of those electronic records. The concept that in this age you can destroy evidence by shredding some folders of paper makes no sense to me.
From the Linux man pages - This is the beginning of the help file for the Linux command "shred". But yeah - they are probably talking about paper docs.
SHRED(1) User Commands SHRED(1)
NAME shred - overwrite a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it
SYNOPSIS shred [OPTION]... FILE...
DESCRIPTION Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data. ...