Tips for preventing ID theft

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You can hardly live without credit and debit cards these days, but there are steps that can be taken to ward off the perils of identity theft, privacy experts say, even if caused by a giant information leak from some remote, windowless computer center.

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la...,1612220.story

I save myself all that hassle by being poor, believe me people on the same page of the phone book as me have problems getting credit because of my ratings.