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Is it always the same person? How do you build up the trust to let them mess with your bills/tickets/money?

It’s been the same person for almost 5 years. Trust was built over time.

She doesn’t have direct access to my money, only credit cards. Those are easy to cancel or chargeback if things go screwy. She does know my SSN which is a bigger concern, but then again you give your SSN to all sorts of people and services in USA, it’s very not actually a secret.

Oh and she doesn’t know passwords to anything. LastPass sharing only.

Doesn't that mean she knows the shared passwords?

Most password managers let you share passwords without actually revealing the password.

I struggle with this concept. Suppose a password manager's password sharing utility allows me to login to a web service in my browser. Couldn't I open the Network tab and observe the network request that displays the plaintext username and password?

Probably. It’s not meant to be bullet proof I don’t think, but most people who aren’t developers don’t know that the network inspector is even a thing let alone how to use it.

How can they possibly login without the password being available to them?

yeah this is one of my concerns with virtual assistants. Do you trust them with your identity and privileged information? eg SSN, CC's, passwords etc

This was a major plot point in the movie "Where'd you go, Bernadette". Wife of a Microsoft executive hands over all the family information to a virtual assistant that is actually a Russian identity fraudster.

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