> A good example of how the internet is not compareable to real life. Whenever someone handwaves "but that's always happened" > In person, the chance of a loca

> A good example of how the internet is not compareable to real life. Whenever someone handwaves "but that's always happened" > In person, the chance of a local person traveling to your house to photograph a cheque is non-existent. This is the digital version of an open house. The same mitigation that prevents this behavior from happening in real life (i.e. setting up the house in a way where guests can't see your personal info) would have fixed the problem here. I can personally guarantee that criminals target physical "real life" open houses too, as it happened to someone I know. I suppose the internet does make it lower effort to exploit (especially from across the world), but it's at least 'comparable' in my opinion.