A Guide to the Best of Southern California : HIGH TECH : Secret Service

Shredding, the high-tech solution to the disposal of classified, sensitive or just plain personal documents, has left the realm of Oliver North and found applications in everything from the banking business to the entertainment industry. For a minimum of $150, a sophisticated mobile shredder will pull up to your home or office and pulverize your secrets--everything from tapes and typewriter ribbons to floppy disks and three-ring binders--using an air-driven process that reduces the matter to fiber. What’s the smallest job L.A.-based Instashred has handled so far? A brown bag of tax records brought in by an elderly couple relocating from a house to a condo.

Instashred Security Services, by appointment only; (800) 72 SHRED.