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Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by diggan »

shock wrote: post #105
alexis_fr wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Atlassian is not the only one who wrecked login by implementing SSO across all their instances. I really don’t recommend using in-app dual logins (for example Gmail’s dual login), and stick to using separate Chrome profiles or Firefox profiles, so that none of the cookies are shared. Even with that, I’ve had surprises with my mobile phone number being the only shared information between two Google Ads accounts, and G…

> separate Chrome profiles or Firefox profiles, so that none of the cookies are shared. You don't need separate Firefox profiles for that, you can use Firefox containers.

True, but by using profiles you don't need any extra extensions, it comes built-in in both Chrome and Firefox, you can simply start it with providing the `--profile ` flag. Correct me if I'm wrong, but some IT environments also lock down installing extensions from addons.mozilla.org, so the profiles tip would be applicable to more people.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by diggan »

dreyfiz wrote: post #60

GitHub did this to me a few years ago. I still feel violated. Not by my idiot former employer. I feel violated by GitHub. I got my account back. Sort of. They detached a significant amount of my content from my account, and returned to me a gimpy lobotomized version of myself. All my old GitHub comments are credited to “ghost” now. I was somewhere in the first 12,000 GitHub accounts. My relationship with GitHub signi…

> I trusted GitHub

I feel like every netizen goes through this at one point of their life, where they trust an entity, get burned, and learn the lesson of never trusting another entity (100% without condition) again, keeping your data closer to yourself.

Much like in real life, where at one point you trusted some too much/naively, and after that point you're more careful, even of things/people you do trust.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by bald42 »

danielhlockard wrote: post #45
quanticle wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're a freelancer or a contractor, and you're doing work for someone who uses Trello to manage projects, you should sign up with a throwaway e-mail address. That's what I do for Github. That way, if that organization then decides to wipe the account or mess around with its permissions after I've stopped working for them, it's no skin off my back. Personal stuff is personal , work stuff is work and ne'er shall th…

The github bit doesn't make any sense. When you leave you just get kicked from the org...

That's what the OP thought about Trello and look how it ended...

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by taneq »

shashanktomar wrote: post #75

From the comments, there is some confusion about why did i attach my personal email to a company account. That was not the case, let me clarify it. I created my personal account long before Trello was acquired by Atlassian. It did not have any SSO at that point and the login was with username and password. At some point, while working on a side project and to share it with a teammate, I attached a secondary email to…

Wow, their response is atrocious. It's basically just "Yes, that's right, there was a second email address attached to your account and the owner of the domain for that email set up SSO, so they now own your account. Try asking them nicely for it."

I started disentangling myself from Atlassian products a few years ago but I was still using Trello. Clearly that's going to have to stop.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by savolai »

Heads up: Notion works surprisingly well for trello boards, and they have import functionality straight from Trello. The only thing that didn’t import afaik is card tags/labels that didn’t have a name so I had to reimport after adding names to tags/labels.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by austhrow743 »

shashanktomar wrote: post #92
sbrother wrote: post #88

This is scary. I’m trying to understand - I have several Trello accounts, one that I use for my own personal work and some consulting clients, and several other accounts with @client.com emails. Does this mean that if I have my personal account added as a secondary email anywhere on a client owned board, they can take control of my personal account including other clients’ IP? If so that’s terrifying and we need to f…

That is precisely what happened to me.

Elsewhere you wrote that the opposite scenario happened to you. You tainted your personal account with a work email. This person is worried about tainting their personal email with a work account.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by KingOfCoders »

alexis_fr wrote: post #87
shashanktomar wrote: post #75

From the comments, there is some confusion about why did i attach my personal email to a company account. That was not the case, let me clarify it. I created my personal account long before Trello was acquired by Atlassian. It did not have any SSO at that point and the login was with username and password. At some point, while working on a side project and to share it with a teammate, I attached a secondary email to…

Atlassian is not the only one who wrecked login by implementing SSO across all their instances. I really don’t recommend using in-app dual logins (for example Gmail’s dual login), and stick to using separate Chrome profiles or Firefox profiles, so that none of the cookies are shared. Even with that, I’ve had surprises with my mobile phone number being the only shared information between two Google Ads accounts, and G…

We had the same with Amazon, we created a new Amazon account but shared the telephone number. Support sent emails to the first account concerning the second account.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by mattmanser »

PeterStuer wrote: post #106
jwr wrote: post #103

I have a single E-mail account that I use for everything. I decided more than ~20 years ago that my E-mail is tied to my identity and not to any particular E-mail service or employer, and I started managing my E-mail myself. Trello just notifided me that: > At least one of the email addresses linked to your account belongs to an organization: [...] > This usually means it's a work email. If this organization begins u…

Just received the same email, and had the same experience as you. Servers are not responding. Now I'm no longer using Trello as I moved to tasksinabox.com 2 years ago, but I don't see why the information I have there should suddenly be transferred to a company, out of my control and without my permission, just because somewhere there is an email address with a company domain name attached. I understand the old "lure…

Did it actually come from @trello.com?

As I got the same email from @trellis.coffee and assumed it was a phishing attempt.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by TeMPOraL »

Kiro wrote: post #96
mjd wrote: post #31

They emailed me about this back on January 30: Subject: Your company ExampleCo will soon manage your Trello account Good news! Your Trello account is getting an upgrade. ExampleCo will now manage Trello accounts with a example.com email address, which includes yours (mjd+trello@example.com). The "Good news" part looked like marketing bullshit, but the rest of the message was menacing enough that I was able to contact…

I got the same and it also said: "Use another Trello account for anything not related to [my previous company]. Grab a new, free Trello account in seconds and move your vacation board (or whatever should be elsewhere!) to that one." My former company is not even using Trello and everything I have there is personal. I created the Trello with my personal email and only afterwards added the company email to it to access…

> Why does the organisation email trump my personal one that I actually created the account with?

Because the organization a) pays them money, and b) demands this. Enterprise offerings like SSO tend to support the legal and pseudo-legal aspect of the security theatre of enterprise space. So if you connect a company e-mail to your personal account, that account suddenly falls under whatever random policies organization's IT team implemented.

Re: Trello handed over my personal account to my previous company

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Post by sneak »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #117
alexis_fr wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Atlassian is not the only one who wrecked login by implementing SSO across all their instances. I really don’t recommend using in-app dual logins (for example Gmail’s dual login), and stick to using separate Chrome profiles or Firefox profiles, so that none of the cookies are shared. Even with that, I’ve had surprises with my mobile phone number being the only shared information between two Google Ads accounts, and G…

We had the same with Amazon, we created a new Amazon account but shared the telephone number. Support sent emails to the first account concerning the second account.

I have stopped giving out phone numbers to services. I can get throwaway email addresses (eg anonaddy.me, which is great) but burner numbers incur a significant time and cost, so I just don’t use services that demand one now.

Google Accounts fall into this category these days. Possible I’ll deprecate my use of those, as I don’t use gmail or drive any longer.

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