Paper Shredder Puzzle: rebuilding Stasi files per computer in 7 years

Sounds to me like a stunning task. Looking at the size of the fragments though the task seems a bit more possible. Apparently the shredders in the old Democratic Republic of German where not of the confetti kind and the sizes are still so that one could do this by hand. Admittedly, according to the article in “Der Spiegel”, it would take “30 diligent Germans 600 to 800 years to finish”, hehe. I wonder if it would take longer to achieve if the group of 30 was of another nationality? There will be a test phase and after completion the funding will be decided for the full project that should be finished in 7 years time. Would this be a task for a distributed computing project similar to seti@home and others? Of course without showing the open results to participants. Very interesting. It makes me think about my own paper shredding habbits.