@Jerry > It breaks down real relationships people have with businesses and other organizations. It doesn't have to. It continues to amuse me that phishing and other email threats are still a thing, because it became a solved problem back when spam became a solved problem: stop using a generic/public email address for private/personal communications. You cannot, for example, be phished as your bank if the attacker doesn't know the email address your bank uses to contact you. Nor would it be as easy to cross reference information from social media sites like LinkedIn if your email address isn't functioning as a shared ID. The bigger threat is texting, because most people cannot afford to manage dozens of phone numbers for all their different relationships. Likewise, the "voice and video" deepfakes that Bruce points out will inevitably follow are mostly a threat to people who can't distinguish a public connection from a private connection. We took a huge step backwards in security when we went back to handing out our phone numbers for everything. bceb5490f4ec9a5d6c24637f7f52b3545d5dc191e5c7922dd88ac9104e0a74c3