This problem with protecting your privacy is like a digital war. Identity theft is a big problem in modern society. It is important to shred documents with your birth date, social security number and other confidential information. In recent years, adware, malware and spyware have caused many users machines to become bogged down, leak confidential information, and cause DDOS attacks on web sites that will overload them and cause them to shut down. This has happened with the Spybot --- Search and Destroy website as well as others. Another area to be aware of is to never open e-mails that you do not trust --- just delete them. By the way, I do have blockers for cookies that I do not trust and third party cookies but this is besides the point. People must remain aware of these threats so as to be able to neutralize their dangerous effects on their machines as well as potentially causing problems with users worldwide by causing digital denial of service errors. Ignore these risks at your own peril.
