[justinhj]

That's some very sensitive information to put in Slack. If Slack has a security breach or if any of your slack accounts are hacked then an outside party could see this channel.

Ever accidentally typed your sudo password at the wrong prompt?

[ultramancool]

People are _way_ too trusting of Slack and similar services.

You could run your own IRC or Mattermost server accessible only in your LAN or over VPN and this would be fairly safe. Heck, even SSL-only with cranked up SSL options would be fairly safe.

Instead, people ship all their data off to a 3rd party company, often letting that 3rd party have control over their servers and such. Their customer data, their payment data, even code exec on all their servers is exposed and out of their control.

It's insanity, I can't believe people have so little regard for security. Especially with a 3rd party company with a less-than-great security record.

[xena]

People will always feel comfortable trading privacy for convenience!

[15155]

And liberty for the feeling of safety.

[ultramancool]

Very unfortunate but I feel it may be true.

[dthakur]

How quickly we forget that Slack was hacked not more than a year ago.

[hoorayimhelping]

How can we forget that? Literally any time Slack is mentioned on HN, people come out of the woodwork to let everyone know they don't use it cause it's hosted by someone else.