[tonteldoos]

My main concern is that, with ID, it becomes possible to do a Sim swap or number port, which would be the start of a heap of nightmares. Luckily, buried at the bottom of Optus' announcement, they mention that (for the moment) those can now only be done in person, in-store, with physical ID.

For the other stuff (address, name, DoB)...what are the things nearly everyone asks when you ring to make account changes, to verify you are you..

I'd be careful with the home address too (although you should be ok). I moved around a bit a few years ago, and lost track of where I'd updated my address. It was usually as simple as 'I think my most recent address with you is X, can you please update it to Y', and as long as the other stuff checked out, no questions were asked.

And yeah, I had to laugh about that press release :/

Still no email this side. No news is good news, right?