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by Cicero22 1595 days ago
Chances are your information's already stored somewhere that you have no control of. Knowing that, it might be better to focus on mitigating the impact of identity theft rather than preventing it entirely. One way you could reduce the impact would be setting up many (10+) bank accounts and splitting the money between them. if someone stole your identity, how likely are they to be able to empty every one of your accounts before you notice and freeze them? another option would be to put your money in crypto, making sure you have custodianship of the wallet. Though, that adds the risk of crypto tanking in value.
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You can always use a stable coin to avoid that risk (I mean, not even that is 100% risk-free but surely orders of magnitude less risky than alternatives).
Yeah, I agree. I already do that. Maybe I should consider it good enough...