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Comment on Ask HN: How Do You Securely Share Passwords in Teams?

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Write it on a post-it, walk up to the person, give it to them, then take the post-it back.

Passwords are designed to be human-interface memorized authentication tokens. Sharing it any other way than via human interaction just makes it a digital key, and real digital keys are much more secure than digital passwords. So share it via human medium, or rethink why you're using a password.

In our case, there's not much to think: we're using passwords because that's the only way to authenticate to those services.

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