Future Tense Newsletter: Change Your Passwords After a Breakup

Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society. If you're still using a Netflix login that belongs to the parents of your ex's roommate, then you know how easy it is to stay digitally signed on to the past. But with the proliferation of internet-connected home devices and an increasing amount of our personal information left in digital trails online, changing your passwords and application permissions after a breakup needs to become common sense, argues Rachel Withers. You also might want to re-evaluate your security habits if you're a PGP user. As Josephine Wolff explains, recent news of security vulnerabilities in the encrypted email program provides more evidence you should swap your encrypted email for more secure messaging services.