It wasn’t so much higher trust, so much as naïveté. The lack of direct experience & exposure to that world. The lack of understanding of just how easy it was to

It wasn’t so much higher trust, so much as naïveté. The lack of direct experience & exposure to that world. The lack of understanding of just how easy it was to fool people, and the lack of widespread exposure & attack surfaces to bad actors. Computing changed the scale. The problems were preexisting though.