Minutes to undo

Eight situations where the gap is real and short

These pages assume you are reading them in a hurry, possibly a few minutes after the thing happened. They lead with the first move and explain afterwards, which is the reverse of how the rest of the site is written.

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Printed as supplied, in no order. Nothing here is watched or timed, so an address that loads is not proof of anything. More about the set

1.Why this group exists at all

A short gap is easy to miss because it does not look like a gap. Nothing on screen says you have a few minutes. The gap exists because the damage needs a second step by somebody else, and that second step takes time even when it is automated. A password is only a problem once it is used. A code is only a problem once it is presented somewhere.

That is the whole logic of this section. The gap is not the market being generous. It is the delay between somebody getting a thing and somebody using it, and every page here tells you what shortens or removes that delay.

2.The eight entries

Minutes, if you moveA password typed into a copy of the siteA login given to a lookalike page, and the short gap before somebody uses it.Until it is closedA session you think is still yoursA live session left running somewhere you do not control, and how to cut it off.Seconds, then nothingA one-time code you handed overA challenge string read out to somebody who asked, and the minute that follows.Until you press sendA wrong address pasted but not sentThe field holds the wrong destination and nothing has moved. Ten seconds decides it.Until the invoice lapsesAn order placed but not yet paidAn order created, nothing paid against it, and a decision that is still cheap.Until the next copyAn address still sitting in the clipboardWhatever you copied last is still there, and it is not private to one window.Until someone touches itA browser left open on a shared machineYou walked away from a screen. The gap lasts until the next person sits down.Until you send itA message that is still a draftThe text exists, nobody has read it, and every word is still free to change.

3.The order to do things in

When a gap is short, sequence matters more than completeness. Cut the access first, then check what was reached, then decide what to tell anyone. People do this backwards, usually because working out what happened feels more productive than closing a session.

The other common error is trying to do everything from the same place the problem started. If you suspect a login page was not the real one, the next thing you type should not go into that page or that tab.

Read this twiceA short window is not a safe window. It is a window. Treating it as breathing room is how a five minute problem becomes one of the entries in the section with no window at all.

4.What ends a short gap early

Somebody uses the thing they were given, which is the ordinary case.
An automated process runs on a schedule that has nothing to do with you.
You confirm something, which converts a reversible step into a completed one.
You tell the wrong person, which turns a private problem into an active one.

Three of those four are outside your control. That is why the advice on these pages is always about the one that is not.

Read moreThe six things that close a windowThe general version of the list above, applied across all four sections.