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What If All Your Slack Chats Were Leaked?

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Re: What If All Your Slack Chats Were Leaked?

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What if all your search history were leaked? What if all your text messages were leaked? What if all your emails were leaked? I guess those things aren't trendy enough to worry about.

For a long time I have noticed what I would call 'ankle biting journalism'. Basically take whatever is trendy, make only the most obvious observations about it (things that someone who only rudimentary knowledge would come up with in a few minutes), then act like these obvious things are serious and there is a problem here.

As usual, it's not that serious, and there isn't a problem here. I have no idea how Slack stores user chat history, but lets say they store them in plain text in the cloud. Then Slack is about as secure as IRC, which is exactly what it is trying to be, IRC 'but better'.

Besides, if you are using Slack for work, whoever is the 'Owner' of the enterprise account can export and view every conversation whenever they want, because 'compliance'.

Re: What If All Your Slack Chats Were Leaked?

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What if all your search history were leaked? What if all your text messages were leaked? What if all your emails were leaked? I guess those things aren't trendy enough to worry about. For a long time I have noticed what I would call 'ankle biting journalism'. Basically take whatever is trendy, make only the most obvious observations about it (things that someone who only rudimentary knowledge would come up with in a…

Since when is not encrypting what could be sensitive communication ""isn't a problem here"?
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