Your back aches after stooping over your paper shredder for hours as you turn all your personal papers with your identity numbers into confetti in the service of protecting your identity. After an hour, you still have a closet full of tax returns from the last 10 years. They need to be shredded, soon than later, since your closet is bursting over. That'll take you another several hours. Yeah, you've repelled the thieves from stealing your identity. But your time--like your documents--is going down the shredder chute.
We are a nation well stocked with industrial grade paper shredders and we spend a huge chunk of our waking hours shredding away our lives so that insidious predators won't steal our identity. And our wasted time and money doesn't stop there. Firewalls, anti-virus software, encryption codes, patches . . . welcome to the Internet Age.
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