The major US provides are looking to get you to replace all your logins with direct cell-provider authenticated logins, so they can skip the email recovery part

The major US provides are looking to get you to replace all your logins with direct cell-provider authenticated logins, so they can skip the email recovery part: https://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/project-verify-will-bring-mobile-connect-tech-to-u-s https://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/project-verify-will-brin... With this the attackers get direct access to all your services once they socially engineer or identity theft attack your cell account once.