Keep sensitive info out of your email and chat logs.
When you send people passwords and private links via email or chat, there are copies of that information stored in many places. If you use a one-time link instead, the information persists for a single viewing which means it can't be read by someone else later. This allows you to send sensitive information in a safe way knowing it's seen by one person only. Think of it like a self-destructing message.
When you use secure share, a unique link is generated for you each time you wish to share any information. Each generated link can then only be used once, and once the message has been displayed or expiry time is reached it will no longer be usable.
You can share any text based messages with secret share, be it your password, email, secret message or any private links.
The challenge with sending files, images in particular, is that there's no way to absolutely guarantee it wasn't copied or shared with other people. In order to ensure that no one's private information is unknowingly shared, we decided to err on the side of simplicity.
True but all you have is text. With images and other files types, they can contain metadata and other potentially revealing information about who the sender or recipient. Again, this is simply to ensure that no private information is shared outside of the intended recipient.
Nope. We display it once and then delete it. After that it's gone forever.
You need to create a new secret. We can't retrieve it for you.
Each generated link has an expiry time which can be upto 7 days. So depending upon the expiry time, the link and it's content will be deleted forever once the time is reached.