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Too Much Free Time

by Mike Masnick




The Document Destruction Business Is Booming Thanks To Identity Theft Worries

from the we-destroy-anything dept

A few months ago, a set of videos of massive shredding machines destroying all sorts of stuff (computers, appliances, furniture, cans, batteries, etc.) made the usual rounds of blogs and email forwards. If it made you wonder about being in the business of destroying stuff with huge shredding machines, you might be happy to know that the business is booming -- mainly because of fears about identity theft. You may have gone out and bought a little personal shredder for your own personal papers (those are hot items as well), but big companies need a bigger solution apparently. They send out all of their paper to be shredded on a massive scale, and that's allowed the companies who own those shredders to grow quickly. So, while all this identity theft is causing some companies to lose business, it apparently is helping out some other industries -- and that leaves them free to run fun experiments like destroying concrete in a steel drum, a couch or even a BMW (though, the video on that one specifically notes that the product is not recommended as a regular car shredder).

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  1. Aug 4th, 2005 @ 11:46am

    How Babies Are Made

    by dorpus

    Now just run the video in reverse, and tell them this is where babies come from.

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  2. Aug 4th, 2005 @ 7:06pm

    reverse shredding

    by blorpus

    Can dorpus's off-topic postings be run through a reverse shredder and turned into something vaguely useful?

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  3. Aug 9th, 2005 @ 7:59am

    document shredding

    Check out this innovative solution for homeowner document destruction!

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  4. May 27th, 2009 @ 2:55am

    Paper Shredders

    blog Is very informative , I am really pleased to post my comment on this blog . It helped me with ocean of knowledge so I really believe you will do much better in the future. Good job web master.

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  5. Aug 5th, 2009 @ 2:20am

    Paper Shredders

    This blog is a great job ,with growing competition the fear of business theft is increasing , hence the devices like shredders are highly preferred .

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