How did people in the past prevent identity theft? I mean before the photos and new secure technology on identity documents were available?

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How did people in the past prevent identity theft? I mean before the photos and new secure technology on identity documents were available?

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It didn’t use to matter as much. [But also we’re bad at it even now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus)

So story time – My mom is into genealogy, and apparently when she went to find my grandmothers birth certification, she couldn’t find it. Well, after some digging she found out that her birth certification was under a different first name. Well it turns outs her parents named her X, and her entire life called her Y, and that’s just what she assumed her name was, and it never mattered it was different on her birth certificate.

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