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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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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OK now I’m confused because I want to RT the top tweet because I do work in a newsroom and have always felt we should get off Slack but now that sounds like I’m cool with us getting hacked
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Wouldn’t the same be true for a newsrooms email history?
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Not necessarily. Like, if a source emailed under their own name — possibly — but in my experience that often doesn’t happen and most of what you discover happens over the phone and through securedrop
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Can't wait to see it used to discredit the next big story. Seems like it would be a target for any company.
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