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Remember the days when there were phone books?
Remember these telemarketing auto-dialer machines?;D
Unlisting yourself from the phone book was (and is) a common thing, atleast where I am from. In fact you have to explicitly consent to the publishing of your personal data, when you register here.
And frankly, there are many people, knowing my name, that I don't want calls, much less unexpected visits from. But I guess my landlord doesn't call me The Hermit for no reason:D
The fact that seems so foreign now and so rife for exploit saddens me.
I think there's just been an increase in targets and complexity of exploits. And in awareness and fear of them in this zeitgeist, dunno...If you go further back in time, getting exploited probably was more likely to be life-threatening, and feared?