Identity theft has become a major area of crime over recent years and due to this many people are taking steps to lower the risk of this happening to themselves. One of the most important things that you can do is to destroy any documents that contain personal information about yourself rather than just throwing them in the bin. The best way to destroy a document is to shred it. There are many paper shredders on the market these days and this is a review of the top four cross cut paper shredders.