Shreddin'

[Turtle]

Over in Portland today they have a 'shred day' going for people to drop off personal documents for shredding.
I shred at home (used to tear up by hand! ). Do you shred? When & where? Is ID theft a problem in your little corner of the world?

[Racoon]

OOOOHH!
good Poll Turtler... (don't put me out of a job )

With all the F*ing Tweekers running around everywhere, shredding becomes important.
Due to ID theft as you mentioned...

YES.
When my Grandpa died, we found he had about 5 paper shredders. Not that he really needed them, he was just going senile and buying crap he already had..

So Yes!

I use one he bought and shred
some of it I put in the trash as opposed to recycling
but,
why take chances...

Good thing is,
I am not important enough to be worth bothering about...

[Tormod]

I recycle, but I don't shred.

Most of our documents are electronic though and there's a system in place to safely back things up, but not to delete anything. We're pack rats...better have tons of gigabytes of documents than wipe anything out.

[TheBigDog]

If someone steals my identity? I only wish I could see the look of dissapointment on their face when they tried to make it worth their while.

Bill

[Jay-qu]

I dont shred - I have nothing to hide and ID theft isnt really a problem round here.

[Racoon]

Originally Posted by Jay-qu

- I have nothing to hide

good for you Jay-Qu dude!

Crank is a serious f*cking scourge around here!!
Thankfully, you don't deal with it over there in Australia...

But here it is Serious Reality!
Especially Turtle's and Racoon's turf...
A growing crime that is hard to prosecute, and affects your entire life if it happens!

Not something thats fun!

Something that is helped prevented by shredding all credit card solicitations and important documents
Many lives have been ruined.

[UncleAl]

[quote] I shred at home[quote]
Crosscut shredder, mix well a whole lot of shreds in a plastic bag, spray with a garden hose. Massage.

The government optically unshreds documents - scan in both sides of all the chaff, discard blanks, let the computer sort by albedo, geometery, and text connectivity (possibly in parallel via optical Fourier transforms). If you crosscut you make the job much harder by at least [(N^2)-N]/2 where "N" is the number of pieces. If you crosscut shred and then wet pulp, they've got to want it real bad.

[Jay-qu]

what have you got to hide al

If I really wanted something gone then I would just burn it.. poof gone up in smoke.

[Celeste]

Yes, I do, always!

Fact: My sister-in-law owns 1 home.
Last year she received a letter from Utah Power stating that they were shutting off power to all 3 of her residences because 2 of them were months past due to the tune of $1400.00. After going to the police, they found that the other 2 residences had been rented out by, as neighbors stated, illegal immigrants.
Upon further investigation, they also found that this same group had bought and defaulted on a car, electronics, and opened up numberous credit card accounts using her identity. Her credit was destroyed and what was really sickening was that SHE had to obtain an attorney and prove that it was not her!!

To this date, they have not arrested anyone.

Shred, Shred, Shred!!

[Cedars]

I've been shredding or burning for many years now. ID theft isnt new, its just more widespread.