What’s the point of password protecting your document in a 1st email, then writing the password in a 2nd email within 5 minutes?

What security is gained from this procedure? What does this procedure accomplish? Many professionals do this, like government officials and lawyers.
First, they email me the attachment (e.g. PDF, Word file, Excel spreadsheet). And they wri… Continue reading What’s the point of password protecting your document in a 1st email, then writing the password in a 2nd email within 5 minutes?