The "Quick" Share Trap

It happens in every company. You need to give a colleague access to a staging server or a shared marketing account. You're both on Slack or Microsoft Teams. It takes two seconds to copy-paste the password and hit send.

It feels efficient. But from a security perspective, you've just created a permanent record of a credential that should be ephemeral.

Why Chat Logs Are Not Secure Storage

1. Persistence

Chat history is often searchable and retained indefinitely. That password you shared three months ago? It's still there, waiting for anyone who gains access to your chat history to find it.

2. Broad Access

In many organizations, chat admins or compliance officers have access to message logs. Furthermore, if a team member's account is compromised, the attacker doesn't just get their current conversations—they get their entire history.

3. No Expiration

Unlike a secure secret sharing tool, a chat message doesn't delete itself after viewing. It sits there until someone manually deletes it, which almost never happens.

The Better Way: Ephemeral Links

This is exactly the problem CipherSend solves. Instead of pasting the password directly:

1. Paste the password into CipherSend.
2. Generate a one-time link.
3. Share the link in Slack or Teams.

Once your colleague clicks the link, the secret is viewed and immediately destroyed. Even if an attacker reads your chat logs a week later, the link they find will be dead.

Conclusion

Convenience shouldn't come at the cost of security. By adding one small step—wrapping your secrets in a self-destructing link—you eliminate a massive attack surface in your organization's communication channels.