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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1053592, member: 19065"]I recall hearing that when the <a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/technology-articles/at-threat-to-national-security-improper-document-shredding-455853.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.articlesbase.com/technology-articles/at-threat-to-national-security-improper-document-shredding-455853.html" rel="nofollow">Iranians overran the US Embassy in Iran,</a> teams rug weavers(?) (again females) went about piecing together sensitive documents the Embassy workers hastily attempted to destroy before loosing control of the facility and becoming hostages.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a mention of this and other interesting history on the Wikipedia page about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_shredder" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_shredder" rel="nofollow"><b>Paper Shredders</b></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/11/30-years-after-the-hostage-crisis.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/11/30-years-after-the-hostage-crisis.html" rel="nofollow"><b><br /></b></a></p><p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/11/30-years-after-the-hostage-crisis.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/11/30-years-after-the-hostage-crisis.html" rel="nofollow"><b>PBS' Frontline</b></a> did a story, "The Hostage Crisis, 30 years On":</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_shredder" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_shredder" rel="nofollow"></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1053592, member: 19065"]I recall hearing that when the [URL="http://www.articlesbase.com/technology-articles/at-threat-to-national-security-improper-document-shredding-455853.html"]Iranians overran the US Embassy in Iran,[/URL] teams rug weavers(?) (again females) went about piecing together sensitive documents the Embassy workers hastily attempted to destroy before loosing control of the facility and becoming hostages. There is a mention of this and other interesting history on the Wikipedia page about [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_shredder"][B]Paper Shredders[/B][/URL] [URL="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/11/30-years-after-the-hostage-crisis.html"][B] PBS' Frontline[/B][/URL] did a story, "The Hostage Crisis, 30 years On": [B][/B][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_shredder"][/URL][/QUOTE]
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