[tommi]

I like Slack but I'm bit hesitant to have it the ability to control my mouse and keyboard all the time. Slack is so popular that there are certainly lot attacks against it and that could be one of the biggest exploits. I really hope operating system side sandboxing features mature and I'm able to control if and when software has access to such features.

[Nition]

We can finally replicate the way movies show "hacking" where the hacker starts controlling the kb + mouse and typing "HELLO MR SMITH. YOU HAVE BEEN HACKED" in 128px font.

[yeukhon]

This has been around for years. Webex has it for a long time.

[derefr]

> I really hope operating system side sandboxing features mature and I'm able to control if and when software has access to such features.

In macOS at least, Slack and/or ScreenHero gets an entry under "Privacy > Accessibility" settings panel (just like apps like Synergy), where it begins disabled, and you have to explicitly go to that panel and enable it before it can do anything with your mouse/keyboard. You can disable it again at any time.