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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I got a fake ID when I was 16, just by taking an older friend’s birth certificate into the DMV. That was it. This was in Oklahoma, 1996.