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Among the suggestions are inspecting home offices, using encryption to connect to corporate networks and providing locked cabinets and shredders for paper records. Just make sure the cat stays away from the shredders. -- Jim PuzzangheraPuzzanghera, a Times staff writer, covers tech and media policy from Washington, D.C.Photo by DDFic via Flickr

Inside the hall on Stand Number 1000, group company Blue Machinery Advanced Technologies) Limited, is showing its specialist shredders and aling machines and will be demonstrating a high technology Pellenc detection and separation machine.Blue offers the recycling, waste anagement industries, local authority waste treatment plants and transfer stations a wide range of shredding, composting, screening, crushing and conveying equipment for the efficient and cost-effective processing of inert and green waste. In addition to Doppstadt shredders and Kiverco trommels, recycling plants and picking stations, Blue's portfolio of distributorships also includes Powerscreen screening, washing and recycling equipment, TEREX Pegson mobile crushing plants, Backhus compost and soil turning machinery, General Kinematics finger screens and destoners and Telestack static, mobile and telescopic conveyors.

Perez said while document shredding accounts for about 65 percent of the business, WesTex continues to expand into other areas, like paper document management, media storage, digital imaging and electronic archiving services. But Miller says the company's biggest jump into the information protection age has yet to come. Later this month, WesTex will accept the first shipments of sensitive nuclear documents from Eunice, N.M., where Louisiana Energy Services - a multinational consortium - is preparing to ramp up a $1.5 billion uranium enrichment operation. To that end, WesTex made the decision to invest $250,000 to construct a 15,000-square-foot fortified vault - the first of its kind in West Texas. "We start receiving those documents from them next week.

A low-tech approach Paper and card shredders are a low-tech method for students to ward off identity theft. Along with bank statements and bills, college students get lots of credit card offers in the mail, many pre-approved and containing personal information. University of Oklahoma police advise students to shred or tear up charge receipts, credit card applications, insurance forms, physician statements and any documents containing their Social Security number.

We can be somewhat cavalier with paper shredders, leaving them plugged in and easily accessible. But there are many documented reports of dogs getting their tongues stuck in these common home-office appliances, and some did not survive. Never leave a shredder plugged in when not in use.

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