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Re:New information about Slack’s 2015 security incident by ubercow13 on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:09AM (#20470595)
I think if this happened to me I would just assume the company was hacked due to poor security practices. It seems much more likely than my password being stolen from a device of mine considering that a very significant percentage of companies I have account with seem to have had breaches at some point. But maybe I am just naive.
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Re:New information about Slack’s 2015 security incident by maxtaco on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:17AM (#20470696)
That was my 90%+ likelihood explanation too, but I figured Slack had its act together, and the risk of being wrong was too high.
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Re:New information about Slack’s 2015 security incident by eeeeeeeeeeeee on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:17PM (#20473997)
I think it’s different depending on who you are and what systems you have access to. The Keybase CEO is much more vulnerable to targeted attacks where 0-days would be potentially worth the cost.
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Re:New information about Slack’s 2015 security incident by ubercow13 on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:24AM (#20476560)
That's true of course, I'm not a valuable target so it is both less likely I would be targeted and less important if I was successfully hit.
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