http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/ Engadget Comments for Hand-cranked CD, paper, and credit card shredder http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/
Do you get credit card solicitations? Do you put yout trash out where someone else could rifle through it (on the curb or in a public dumpster)? Bam - you're just begging for identity theft if you're not shredding those credit-card offers.

If you live in a major city, every night there are dozens of people roaming the streets, block to block, digging through trash, collecting those offers. Then they just fill out that form, change the address, and from there it's cake to take your whole identity.

Everyone needs a shredder. But even the cheapest motorized ones are not that cheap. I think a shredder everyone can afford is actually a great idea, and possibly even a major advance in the fight against identity theft.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/
My shreader can barely cough down a damn disk everytime I toss in a CD and barely manages to shred it. I can't imagine trying to crank that thing with everything in it like in the picture.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.radioshack.ca/estore/Product.aspx?language=en-CA&catalog=RadioShack&category=OfficeTools&product=2619529]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/
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$30 is cheap enough.

I paid $40 for one that cross-cuts, which is important enough to pay an extra $10 for.
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Look again closely at the CD. It is clearly being "shredded" into three pieces.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/>Look again closely at the CD. It is clearly >>being "shredded" into three pieces.

three pieces? might as well use scissors!
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More important than shredding cc offers is NEVER put outgoing mail in an unsecure mailbox (the kind we have in the 'burbs where you put the flag up).

And if you're going to bother shredding something, anything besides cross-cut is a waste of time and money.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/
For those afternoons when it's just too nice outside to engage in corporate fraud cover-ups indoors.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/It's about time rich people learn manual labor anyhow right?]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/
Overall, it's a great product - and when I do use it, I take off the plastic handle and connect my 14v cordless drill directly to the shaft. It works very well, and very fast. It's very satisfying to shred paper at high speed.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/
Hasn't the time passed that being seen on TV equaled legitimization? Come on, if that were true than Paris Hilton... Awww nevermind.
Joseph Elwell.]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/
All kidding aside, it's a pretty smart idea -- not sure how many times a week I'm gonna shred my credit cards up (I should), or CDs, but all of those bills with my biling info could benefit from this thing .... way to go guys!]]>Dec 19th 2005 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/http://www.engadget.com/2005/01/26/hand-cranked-cd-paper-and-credit-card-shredder/Dec 19th 2005 12:09AM