Privacy is an underrated advantage in Slack apps

Maybe more of a big deal should be made about the flood of internal private company information that can pass through to third-party Slack app developers?

I suspect most that install Slack apps aren't aware (or don't care?) that their entire list of employees and Slack profiles can get shipped out pretty easily. Anyway here's a little blog-spam on it, enjoy.

https://dibsonstuff.com/privacy-concerns-queue-bot-vs-dibs-on-stuff.html

(written by me, not ai)

3 points | by alance 1 day ago

3 comments

  • 1123581321 5 hours ago
    I don't find many to ask for too many permissions relative to what they do. There are many Slack apps people want, that necessarily need a lot of permissions, to the point where maybe people shouldn't want that app, but that's a different issue.

    Calling out some specific popular extensions that overreach for permissions would be a nice addition or followup to your post.

  • alance 1 day ago
    Clickable: https://dibsonstuff.com/privacy-concerns-queue-bot-vs-dibs-o...
  • murzynalbinos 19 hours ago
    cause many admins just click install without looking at the fine print, which grants apps access to far more channel history and user data than they actually need to function.