The Art of Subscription Sabotage

As a few of you may already know, I recently decided to abandon the LA wasteland and move back to the Bay Area. For the last week I've been doing all the requisite paperwork, i.e. making a whole lot of address changes. After calling some of my magazines, it dawned on me how disturbingly easy it is for anybody to screw somebody over using magazines. Let's say you rummage through your enemy's recycling bin and obtain a copy of Sports Illustrated. All you'd have to do is call up the magazine, read off the subscription number printed on the label and change the address to your own. They don't ask for your social security number or anything. Or, if you're just feeling spiteful, you could pose as your enemy and ask them to start up a subscription to any of the other Time Warner magazines like People or Time. Your nemesis gets flooded with new bills while you laugh with glee. Then there's those little subscription cards. Just take a few from some obscure porn magazines, fill them out, check "Bill Me Later" and your rival will be flooded with X-rated junk mail. Not to give anyone any bad ideas or anything...