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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I have every confidence in Slack's security team, but I also have lots of confidence in the offensive capability of every country on the planet big enough to be interested in manipulating the American press. And right now, enough offense beats any defense
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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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Signal really isn’t an alternative to Slack in a workplace, and I’m saying that as someone who isn’t a big Slack fan. The desktop wrapper apps of signal are really bad and buggy.
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