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
Notes on sensitive information, temporary exchange, email risk, ordinary chat, professional exposure, and Jambastic.
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.
WhatsApp is useful for ordinary communication, but professional confidential exchanges need a sharper question: should this information remain available later?
Temporary sensitive information should be shared for a purpose, used when needed, and then stop existing as readable material in ordinary communication history.
Jambastic is designed for sensitive information that should be shared, used, and then stop being a permanent readable record.