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Cake day: November 28th, 2023

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  • The idea of data security just wasn’t a thing until very recently.

    Credit cards sales were recorded using ink imprints of the cards’ raised numbers, and the “duplicate paper” was then discarded with little thought into the trash. Phone books listed names and addresses of anyone who didn’t pay extra to have them omitted (very few people bothered). Checks (the things you wrote and handed out to ANYONE from the phone company to the paperboy) usually included social security numbers, and most universities also used Social Security Numbers as student ID numbers and required them to be printed on just about everything until well into the 90s. Simpler times.