> wholinator2: Right, and what if you can also fabricate the evidence used for the blackmail. I have a suspicion this threat, and the OP are Quantitatively dif

> wholinator2: Right, and what if you can also fabricate the evidence used for the blackmail. I have a suspicion this threat, and the OP are Quantitatively different at the present time. If unscrupulous companies correlate an effective network with PII, they could do a lot of mischief on a massive scale and many people would be largely unaware. Sell your data, use your data as training data for some other bad action etc. Making fakes requires an audience of, possibly discerning, humans to find the fakes convincing and then take some action.