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we used to live in a significantly higher-trust society

• psychlops 4y ago
  I 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 ago
    No, 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 ago
  We used to also live in an environment where it was far harder to scale the misuse of information and profit from that misuse.