The buried lede in this article on Slack is how many newsrooms use the service, home to the most interesting private conversations on the planet, as a de facto space for gossip. It is reckless for journalists to use Slack like this and it will end in tearshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/style/slack-replace-email-ipo-listing.html …
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Retweet if you work in a newsroom and would be completely comfortable seeing your newsroom's full Slack history published. Like if it would get sources fired/imprisoned/killed
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Journalists may be safer using Telegram or WeChat for group chat because then at least they'll remember it's heavily compromised
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For those who ask what journalists should use in lieu of Slack. I recommend a wry internal monologue as you walk the rain-slickened city streets, a saxophone noodling softly in the background as you think of the stories that hide behind every drawn windowshade. Or use Signal.
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U.S. politicians and journalists badly underestimate the extent to which they are targeted by capable people. It's fun, fulfilling work! Those attackers go to work on Mondays with a song in their hearts, unlike their targets.
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it’s inevitable, i think. they fuck up just once on one security thing and done
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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APTs are fun, but real threat is subpoenas IMO. Preservation orders are a thing, no US security team is going to defy a US judge. AND the feds are still getting the hang of redaction wrt e-discovery: (trigger warning for child abuse victims) https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/06/19/fbi-dhs-failures-reveal-names-of-child-abuse-victims-through-facebook-identities/ …
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which is why the legal dept in at least one large company has insisted that Slack retain only a few months history - supposedly everything older is purged
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