If you are paranoid about folks going through your trash and finding what you throw out on your CDs or DVDs, then you probably already deface them or shred them before you throw them out. Shredding usually breaks them into dangerous looking shards, while defacing them might not always be as effective.

The Disc Eraser provides an inexpensive way to systematically deface your disks. Open the device, place the disk on a small ring and move a slider up and down and your disk will be unreadable. It is safe, clean and really pretty easy. My shredder often gets jammed with paper and it would be nice to be able to deal with my disks without getting up and plugging something in; I like it.

Price: $15.99 [Disc Eraser via Lifehacker]

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