# About the idea: IDENTITY = EMAIL

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-the-idea-identity-email/34642>\
**Category:** Site feedback\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [18 Octubre, 2015 00:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-the-idea-identity-email/34642 "2015-10-18T00:41:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [18 Octubre, 2015 23:08 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/about-the-idea-identity-email/34642/11 "2015-10-18T23:08:14Z")

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It is very very simple @jd2066 ask yourself this

> What happens when I forget my password?

Therefore, email is the source of identity. Yahoo has a new thing where you can use your smartphone as a login, but that’s just a different form of single factor auth – most of the time you use password + smartphone as two factor auth.

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