[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Svelte: Reminds me of my days in the Army. We’d use a confetti shredder for all of our Classified and Secret docs and then the confetti went into a burn bag.

You can talk lots of shit about the gubment, but at least they’re thorough…[/quote]Defense companies are required to use the same techniques.. The shredder or should I say particlizer would make pieces of around 3/32 by 3/32 out of the paper.

One thing that surprised me though, was handling of DVDs.. which was the same as CDs — using an embosser on both sides. The problem is that a DVD’s recording layer is in the center of two plastic disks.. The embosser would not get into the recording layer.. so it was possible to carefully refinish the surface and get at the data of a DVD after embossing. A CD’s recording layer is just under the lacquer on one side – so the embosser is able to cut into it. I usually ended up embossing DVDs to make the base security weenies happy.. and then breaking the DVD up by hand to make myself happy – good stress reliever too.