Can I Be Trusted?

Post by keithpeter » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 7:39 PM UTC

tanzam75 wrote: post #57

AlexDanger wrote: post #54

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Wow. anyone got an English free link describing this work?

Sure, see http://www.npr.org/2012/10/08/162369606/piecing-together-the... You don't even need computers to piece together shredded work. Iran pieced together the shredded US Embassy documents by hand, and China pieced together shredded Soviet atomic bomb documents. You just need time and lots of people. Shredded material is often not well-mixed, so there is a great deal of spatial locality. The thing that distinguish…

Maxwell brothers spring to mind. Panicking and using a single cut type shredder to shred documents after Captain Bob's demise. I gather assembled piece by piece over months by UK forensic science employees.

They should have just had a barbecue.

Post by frogpelt » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 8:52 PM UTC

stinos wrote: post #29

buro9 wrote: post #20

You'd have to define trust to understand and then answer the question. Trust is the inverse of what most people think it is. Trust isn't about what someone will do, it's about what they won't do. You might trust a guy with your life by asking him to hold a ladder whilst you climb up it, but you probably wouldn't trust the same guy with your medical history and insights into your state of mind and personal relationshi…

I think I get your point, but I feel you should try to bring it in a different way, without reverting to pure semantics play. To illustrate: I might as well say "In the case of that ladder, that the guy will hold on tight. In the case of the physician and psychiatrist that they will keep your information for themselves." And suddenly trust is all about what someone will do.

Think of it this way: if a person won't tell a lie that person is always truthful. But if a person will tell the truth, that person may or may not always be truthful.

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