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Don't Share Passwords Over Chat

The takeaway

Texted and emailed passwords linger in logs forever.

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Sending a password through chat, email, or text leaves it sitting in message histories on multiple devices and servers. If you must share access, use your password manager's secure sharing feature instead.

“A password sent by text never really gets deleted.”

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