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Comment by staunch

More like "How Slack Thinks It Stays Secure..."

A sophisticated attack against Slack would be for the purpose of maintaining long-term access to chat data. There's no reason to believe Slack would ever be able to detect someone exfiltrating chat logs. They might catch some attacks but customers can not rightly expect that that their privacy is being maintained. Data being stolen is more likely than not.

Slack chat should be treated like semi-public communication, with the expectation that it will all end up in a torrent file at some point.

The idea that you can "secure" unencrypted text chats using a Security Team with Executive Leadership is pure theater. If Slack took security seriously it would utilize end-to-end encryption.

parent staunch 8 years ago

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