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.
It was a different world. My Dad worked out of town and spent most of the week there. When he was back at our house and we needed groceries, he would shop at the same grocery store during the hours he knew that one cashier was working because she knew that his out of town checks were good.
For most people, transactions were face to face or at least at places they frequented. Important matters were conducted this way.
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.
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.
It was a different world. My Dad worked out of town and spent most of the week there. When he was back at our house and we needed groceries, he would shop at the same grocery store during the hours he knew that one cashier was working because she knew that his out of town checks were good.
For most people, transactions were face to face or at least at places they frequented. Important matters were conducted this way.
It was a different world. My Dad worked out of town and spent most of the week there. When he was back at our house and we needed groceries, he would shop at the same grocery store during the hours he knew that one cashier was working because she knew that his out of town checks were good.
For most people, transactions were face to face or at least at places they frequented. Important matters were conducted this way.
Identity is easier to steal now than ever. Apply to one job and have a face that isn’t particularly unique (be brown). Technology security is always in development.
Identity is easier to steal now than ever. Apply to one job and have a face that isn’t particularly unique (be brown). Technology security is always in development.
Identity is easier to steal now than ever. Apply to one job and have a face that isn’t particularly unique (be brown). Technology security is always in development.
For example: how to prevent someone from showing up at a bank branch and withdrawing someone else’s money? Because you needed to present a bankbook and personal documents, and the bank teller had a way to tell if the documents had been forged. Forgery was (and still is) a thing, though.
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