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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Zahna Eklund

Slack isn't as private as you think - and there's a way to see who's gossiping about you

Since the Covid pandemic left so many of us working from home, professional messaging services and video conference apps have become hugely popular - but are they as private as you think they are?

One woman has discovered that there's actually a way to see everything your co-workers have said about you on Slack, and there's just one step you have to do before you can snoop on their conversations and work out exactly what they've been saying.

The woman, named Dero, said she was stunned to find that some of the channels created in the corporate messaging app were available to her entire company, and began doing some digging to find out what was discussed in the channels.

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