The single greatest threat to digital identity security isn’t sophisticated nation state attacks or zero day exploits; it’s the ubiquitous email address that serves as the skeleton key to our digital lives.
After two decades in cybersecurity, from building authentication systems at Fortune 500 companies to advising moonshot startups on digital identity, I’ve watched the same architectural flaw persist across every major platform: the dangerous over reliance on email as the ultimate root of trust. This dependency has created a house of cards that even security conscious organizations and individuals struggle to escape.
The recent erosion of privacy protections at major email providers, combined with increasing government surveillance capabilities, has transformed what was already a single point of failure into an existential threat to digital sovereignty. It’s time we acknowledge the depth of this problem and chart a