> So the choice is for them to permanently lose access to their email? If an attacker breaks in and changes your password, you already do very likely permanent

> So the choice is for them to permanently lose access to their email? If an attacker breaks in and changes your password, you already do very likely permanently lose access to your email. Account recovery from that point is a hairy process even for people who have a place to safely store important documents, let alone those who don't. > Even stuff like your bank account has secondary means of recovery Those rely on forms of identification that the unhoused disproportionately lack (for the same reasons that they are more prone to lose access to phone numbers). This is also among the reasons why being unhoused tends to correlate with being unbanked.