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One more damn thing to be paranoid about
Mar. 13th, 2006 10:11 amA few weeks ago, I bought a shredder. Not a big or especially fancy one, although it does have a letter opener (useful, although a Leatherman tool works just fine for that, too) and a pencil sharpener (only very occasionally useful, since I use a pencil only very occasionally). It's about as big as a... does anybody even have a breadbox anymore? Well, anyway. It cross-cuts, meaning that it makes little bits instead of long spaghetti-like strands. It can shred a credit card, but only takes a few sheets of paper at a time--very nice for shredding mail. Even though it wasn't that expensive, I still wondered if it was an unnecessary extravagance. After all, if I wanted to destroy something, a credit-card application, for instance, couldn't I just tear it up?
Of course, the question is always, not am I paranoid, but am I paranoid enough? The geniuses at cockeyed.com, who casually solve such long-standing conundra of human knowledge such as, "If you took a can of shaving cream, froze it, and then cut away the can, would it fill a car once it thawed out?"(Answer: You'd need a hell of a lot of cans, even for a small car), have turned their keen and pitiless eye upon a more serious matter: if you do as the nice credit card companies say and tear up the applications that they send you (unsolicited) into itty bitty bits, does it in fact render the application null and void, completely unusable, world without end, amen, amen?
You knew where I was going with this one, didn't you? In fact, not only did he get the credit card, he got it sent to a different address and used his cell phone number as a contact number for activating the account.
In other financial (in)security news, the Department of Homeland Security checks you out if you try to pay your credit cards off all at once. God Bless America.
Of course, the question is always, not am I paranoid, but am I paranoid enough? The geniuses at cockeyed.com, who casually solve such long-standing conundra of human knowledge such as, "If you took a can of shaving cream, froze it, and then cut away the can, would it fill a car once it thawed out?"(Answer: You'd need a hell of a lot of cans, even for a small car), have turned their keen and pitiless eye upon a more serious matter: if you do as the nice credit card companies say and tear up the applications that they send you (unsolicited) into itty bitty bits, does it in fact render the application null and void, completely unusable, world without end, amen, amen?
You knew where I was going with this one, didn't you? In fact, not only did he get the credit card, he got it sent to a different address and used his cell phone number as a contact number for activating the account.
In other financial (in)security news, the Department of Homeland Security checks you out if you try to pay your credit cards off all at once. God Bless America.