German government giving up on digital reassembly of shredded Stasi files, resorting to manual puzzlings
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3CV32)
When it collapsed some 30 years ago, the GDR (East Germany) was the most invasive surveillance state ever attempted, employing one out of every 60 people in the country to snitch on the rest, running dirty tricks campaigns against anyone deemed "subversive." (more")