Remember how we advised you to buy a paper shredder for your home use. Well, we were speaking in the context of stopping your identity from being stolen. Well, if you did not find that argument convincing enough, guess what happens when you throw something unshredded in the garbage and a crook gets his hands on it?

Marcia Cross, the not-so-desperate-housewife any more (she is happily married to Tom Mahoney), put some private photos of hers (they are not provocative but they are not appropriate to be printed in a tabloid either) taken by her husband in the garbage by mistake and now they are in the hands of David Hans Schmidt, who is a master of extorting money out of Hollywood celebrities.

You might argue endlessly about the ethics of it but legally once you throw something in the garbage, it is not yours. And what about copyright laws? Well, they are applicable within the United States but someone could sell them to a forigner.

Summary: Just go get a high quality paper shredder and don't let it happen to you.