Income from wealth is easy to hide and hard to tax -- and perfectly legally.

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But this time a sudden slowdown would not be easy to hide.

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The current system is convoluted and hard to understand for most people, and it makes it easy to hide behind excuses if promised technology fails to deliver.

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Any endorsement you receive that you feel is not true or associates you with someone you prefer not to be associated with is also easy to hide.

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It would have been easy to hide in terrible grief.

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"The beauty of the Net is that it's very easy to hide who you are, manipulate your appearance and vanish without a trace, " says Phillip McKee of the National Consumers League's Internet Fraud Watch.

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But given how easy it is to hide identities on the Internet, the truth may never be known.

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It is easy to misuse information, hide fraud and corruption, and draw inaccurate conclusions.

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Income from labor is hard to hide and easy to tax, as the middle class knows full well.

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She was told of the award before Christmas and has managed to hide the momentous news from even family and team-mates, although she admitted it was not easy information to conceal.

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