stackyFACTSFor a shockingly long time, international travel security relied entirely on trusting people's written physical descriptions. It took a cunning German intelligence officer strolling into the UK during World War I using a fake name for authorities to realize that maybe, just maybe, attaching a visual reference to a vital document was a decent idea.
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