> How do you get back a compromised Google or Facebook or Twitter account?
If you had 16 followers, create a new one. If you had 16M, you get on the front page of HN etc. and they fix it.
> If your former spouse changes your password on google and is able to answer every security question you've set up just as well as you can... what can you do about it?
Have them prosecuted for fraud so they have to change it back. You don't need centralized identity for that.
> On the other hand, when the change of address form at the post office goes in you can walk into the post office and say "this is my government issued ID and I still live at this location. Change my address back to my proper residence and put a hold on future address changes for that address without verification."
So instead your ex files the ID renewal form with an "updated" picture of their friend instead of you, has the new ID sent to your old address (i.e. their address), and then prevents you from filing a change of address form or getting a new ID.
If you had 16 followers, create a new one. If you had 16M, you get on the front page of HN etc. and they fix it.
> If your former spouse changes your password on google and is able to answer every security question you've set up just as well as you can... what can you do about it?
Have them prosecuted for fraud so they have to change it back. You don't need centralized identity for that.
> On the other hand, when the change of address form at the post office goes in you can walk into the post office and say "this is my government issued ID and I still live at this location. Change my address back to my proper residence and put a hold on future address changes for that address without verification."
So instead your ex files the ID renewal form with an "updated" picture of their friend instead of you, has the new ID sent to your old address (i.e. their address), and then prevents you from filing a change of address form or getting a new ID.