Why email and chat are the wrong place for temporary sensitive information
Sensitive information often causes trouble because it is sent through ordinary tools that keep it readable, searchable, forwardable, and available long after it was needed.
Field Notes
Secure Exchange
Notes on sensitive information, temporary exchange, email risk, ordinary chat, professional exposure, and Jambastic.
WhatsApp is convenient. That does not make it suitable for every confidential exchange
WhatsApp is useful for ordinary communication, but professional confidential exchanges need a sharper question: should this information remain available later?
Sensitive information should not live forever in ordinary communication channels
Temporary sensitive information should be shared for a purpose, used when needed, and then stop existing as readable material in ordinary communication history.
Need secure temporary exchange?
Jambastic may be the right route after the problem has been reviewed and the sensitive exchange risk is clear.