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by johnnyanmac 749 days ago
It's a small form of security, and we've traditionally traded some convinence and efficiency to mitigate theft.
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Yes but in this case it's a weak form of security, for a significant efficiency loss. I'm sorry but I don't really believe that most businesses would look at this tradeoff and decide it makes sense.
We're talking about a pricing scheme conceived in a time right around the birth of the assembly line. And right around the stock market crashed.

Everything wasn't about raw profits once upon a time. So a small piece of mind makes sense.