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I was thinking this morning about how strange it was that in the U.S., in the old days of phone books, you had to pay to be unlisted otherwise they'd just publi
by hairofadog 4y ago
I was thinking this morning about how strange it was that in the U.S., in the old days of phone books, you had to pay to be unlisted otherwise they'd just publish your phone number and address right there in the white pages.
Contrast to today when you can't pay to be unlisted but you do have the option to join a class action lawsuit against Equifax after they oops your social security number onto the dark web.
- adamrezich 4y agowe used to live in a significantly higher-trust society
- psychlops 4y agoI wouldn't say that so much as people had to physically go somewhere to use the stolen information. The possible damage was local and limited.
- club_tropical 4y agoNo, this assumes all people have the same baseline tendency to abuse trust and commit fraud. You would then expect the remote scammers of, say, Maine pensioners to be from Alabama or Germany with the same rate (adjusted for population size) as from India, China, etc. This is not the case; your risk not equally distributed among all remote locations.
- ghaff 4y agoWe used to also live in an environment where it was far harder to scale the misuse of information and profit from that misuse.