This is what my head-cannon is as well. Later on during the Dominion war people were already lumping him in with the founders and because he’s a shapeshifter as well. I’d imagine when the founders are shapeshifting to infiltrate the Federation, it would make you hesitant to do so in public.

Login email address (maybe username as well) is case sensitive.

If the first letter is uppercase, my login fails. Changing it to lowercase corrects the issue and I’m able to log in.

Did you figure this out? It’s pretty unintuitive