pfishing and 1password

Hi @delisol

It's important to understand what you mean here by a phishing attack, because it sounds like you might be referring to more than one thing.

A true phishing attack is one where an attacker fools you into handing over your credentials for something. This could be a password for something, your credit card number, or anything else that shouldn't be shared with a stranger.

Classic examples of this include emails that looks like they could be legitimate from your bank or somewhere else asking you to "confirm your account" and which link to a clone of the real website which then steal the information you enter. Usually, the spam filter on your email will flag these as suspicious. Phishing can also happen by SMS, phone call, voicemail, even postal mail(!) among other methods, and there are special names for some of these, like "smishing" (SMS + phishing).

Without knowing exactly what you foresee as the risk in this situation, I can't really comment properly on it yet, but what I can say is that you should never give your 1Password account password or Secret Key to anyone you don't trust completely, such as a family member.

If you can tell me a bit more about the situation, I'll be able to give you a fuller answer. Otherwise, if you have any specific questions, let me know and I'll be able to help out. :)

— Grey