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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There also wasn’t as much incentive for identity theft–travel was not as common, there weren’t huge lines of consumer credit, we didn’t have the internet, etc.–and the tools to do it weren’t as advanced. Which is not to say that it never happened, but these problems tend to get solved only when they create an expensive enough burden to motivate them to be solved–and they get solved only well enough to preserve the viability of the systems (like banking) that rely on them.
Credit cards for example used to be secure “enough” just because credit cards and then hologram stickers were difficult enough to forge that it wasn’t a big enough problem for them to care about.
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