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		drdec on Aug 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Your online identity is owned by your email provid... > Your physical home address used to get printed under your photo in the 1940s newspapers. They stopped when people started to get murdered. Citation needed. Were the murderers foiled by having to use the phone book instead of the newspaper? Was it the lack of pictures that stopped them?

tartoran on Aug 26, 2022 [–]

Probably the photo and adress published together would make it much easier to trigger murdering psychopaths whereas phonebooks had no pictures. Just my assumption as I am not familiar with this practice, though I do believe it is quite a bad idea

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