I'm not usually paranoid

In fact, I would say that I'm very laid-back and chill.  Lacking the energy or dedication for hypervigilance I tend to have a little bit of a 'Shit Happens' attitude towards crime.  I'll make little adjustments to my life to avoid dangerous situations, but I'm going to accept that the reality is most of it is random, and as long as I don't make myself a sitting duck, I'll just have to accept it as part of the way things go if something bad happens to me.  After all, the only time I've been robbed was when someone broke in in Iceland, which at the time at least, had a crime rate, of ohhhh, as close to 0 as you can get.  (Read about some strange happenings of late with people getting punched in the face so hard they're in critical condition, but I will say that chances are both men were very drunk, and thus willingly and knowingly increasing their risk of becoming criminals and/or victims).  I lived in New York City, Brooklyn, Atlanta, D.C., no witnessing or personal knowledge of crimes.  Go figure.

Where was I? Oh paranoia.  I generally laugh at the conspiracy theorist, have shook my head at the government is out to get us folks, and I've shrugged at the internet privacy folks.  Aside from banks and shopping sites (which have quite a lot to lose if their security systems are hacked), for which I use separate iterations on passwords than I use for any other sites, I enter no personal information aside from my e-mail address (well, one of 7, I didn't do that on purpose), and thanks to my job, if you google my name you don't even have to click on the webpage, my e-mail address is right there.  So, that cat is out of the bag.

Two things have changed me very recently.