Ha ha Cohen's shredder fail:

[Kingofalldems]

Link to tweet

[BlueJac]

1. Lovin every minute of it!

[elleng]

2. Great news!

What an awful job!

[berni_mccoy]

3. Damn, the Trump Crime Family is having a really bad day!

Bwahahahahaahah.

[FakeNoose]

22. But it's a good day for the USA

[Freethinker65]

4. Only sixteen? You just know he shredded lots more.

I am assuming that the shredding of evidence that was ordered to be preserved is perhaps more of an issue for Cohen than what was on those 16 pages. It would be be even better if the 16 (or eventually more?) pages contained new incriminating evidence.

[lagomorph777]

5. Day by day, more pages will emerge from the un-shredder.

It's like matching pairs of socks in the laundry: the more you've matched, the faster it goes.

[Renew Deal]

6. 16 doesn't sound like much

[Kingofalldems]

7. But if he took the time to shred them they must be important.

[Renew Deal]

10. I agree

18 minutes isn’t much either but....

[whopis01]

30. Lol. n/t

[Honeycombe8]

28. Not necessarily, though they may be.

I know people who just regularly shred anything with personal info on it, before throwing it away. Copies of bank statements, bills, etc. All those things are online & easy for the govt to get, if they are even meaningful.

Mueller probably got copies of Manafort & Cohen's bank info directly from the banks already, if they were able to get subpoenas.

[blugbox]

9. What if

it ended up being 16 murder confessions?

I'm sure they were destroyed for a reason, so hopefully it's 16 VERY IMPORTANT pages...

[Glimmer of Hope]

11. I wonder if the shreds were in little bits. Saul's brother was able to reconstruct four pages

Overnight but he had tiny strips.

[Kablooie]

25. I hear there wasn't much shredded material in his office..

He could have tossed the rest in the trash earlier.

[Le Gaucher]

8. I hope they are using AI instead of doing it manually

[sunonmars]

12. I think this is much more important.....

Prosecutors also announced that FBI agents had recovered more than 700 pages of encrypted messages between Cohen and other recipients from the private chat apps WhatsApp and Signal.

A second Blackberry cell phone used by Cohen is also under investigation, but has not yet yielded its contents, according to the court filling.

"While the FBI cannot, therefore, estimate the volume of data on this latter device, the BlackBerry produced yesterday contains approximately 315 megabytes of data," prosecutors wrote.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. When the Feds knock, shredders are FIMI

First In Most Important

[33taw]

14. Why would anyone use a shredder? Ever hear of a match?

[DemoTex]

15. I was in a Top Secret - Special Intel (ASA) unit in Vietnam ..

We burned EVERYTHING. We even carried burn bags in the aircraft, and every scrap of paper that was not turned in as mission product went to the burn pit.

The only thing a shredder is good for is to make the documents easier to burn. How did this mob get so stupid?

[33taw]

16. I don't know, but they are unbelievable.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

20. When the Iranians took over the U.S. embassy in 1979 the staff tried to shred everything.

The Iranians just got a bunch of people together and put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

[denbot]

21. One of my duties on a Guided Missile Destroyer was ComTac Custodian.

I would handle crypto key codes, messages and the like. We did use a shredder which all but mulched anything that went in. The remains went into a special weighted bag to be dropped only in DEEP water. If we were ever in danger of being boarded in shallow water, there was always the thermite..

[FakeNoose]

23. Michael Cohen is very low-tech

He didn't even destroy his burner cell phones. Hasn't a clue how or why to use encryption. Never heard of VPN.

[More_Cowbell]

24. It's okay to use a shredder, but don't LEAVE THE SHREDDED PAGES IN THERE :-)

Sure, the FBI could probably eventually piece together shreds that had been tossed out in various waste receptacles. But Cohen made things much easier by leaving stuff in the shredder itself.

[Meadowoak]

29. Probably not easy to build a bon-fire in Manhattan.

[OnDoutside]

17. Avenatti said that Cohen is such an idiot, he didn't a cross cut shredder. He bought the cheapest,

which is the easiest to reconstruct.

[angrychair]

18. Amusing

For criminals that manage millions of dollars worth of crimes they sure are using dated technology and have an incredibly poor understanding of it and how to leverage it to their greatest advantage.

Documents
Have they never heard of redacting pens? Document pulping? Burning?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.wikihow.com/Destroy-Sensitive-Documents%3Famp%3D1

Computers
Kill switches? Deadman switches? EMP pulse? Faraday cage?

I am by no means an expert but the things I’ve suggested are simplistic and easy.
Criminals are morons.

[MyNameIsKhan]

19. its funny people donot know that with technology its not that hard to reconstruct

all you need is to scan each fragments and computer will do the trick or assembling everything. Its time taking though.

[Honeycombe8]

26. Maybe Mueller can get help from the W.H. aides who are taping Trump's papers together.

They're pretty experienced at this, by this time.

[lapfog_1]

27. vertical cut shredders are worthless in the age of AI

couple of points...

The photos of the "strips" go into a large parallel AI program to reassemble.

The process starts to go much faster as the number of strips is reduced, much like a jigsaw puzzle.

He should have purchased a cross cut shredder (cuts both vertical and horizontal). And then burned the remains... or never committed to paper any of the documents in the first place (however, electronic documents present their own challenges).

Hopefully, the "gang that couldn't shoot straight" of mob crimes goes down hard over this.

[Woodycall]

32. It's all kind of useless in a sense

The Utah Data Center:

"Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital "pocket litter.""

[ffr]

31. Say hi to Bubbu when they lock you up.