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Don't Email Yourself Passwords

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Your inbox isn't a vault — stop using it like one.

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Emailing passwords to yourself for convenience leaves them sitting in an account that, if breached, exposes everything at once. A password manager is the secure place for them; your inbox is not.

“Your inbox is a target, not a password vault.”

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