AdvertisementĪs others have noted, recipients who receive abusive, harassing, or threatening messages also cannot easily block a specific sender, because Slack sends the notifications from a generalized master inbox.įollowing the widespread Twitter and media attention, Slack this afternoon acknowledged the gaping flaw in its process-the customizable invitation text-and promised to amend it. There's a giant loophole there, however: the user making the "invitation" gets to send a message of up to 560 characters to their targeted recipient, and Slack emails the recipient the full body of that message. Connect DMs are indeed opt-in, in that you have to accept a request from someone before you can interact with them. Slack appears to have considered the possibility that some bad actors might use its platform for harassment-but it doesn't appear to have thought about that potential very hard or for very long. "If they're connecting with someone they work with, regardless of where that person works, they should be clicking on Slack."
"When someone opens up their phone, if they're connecting with their friends, they click on Facebook or WhatsApp," Frank said. Ilan Frank, Slack's VP of product, told tech news site Protocol that Slack is deliberately positioning itself to become the chat platform of choice for the business world. Today, however, Slack added a feature that allows anyone in the world with a paid account to send a direct message request to any other Slack user in the world (even if they do not have a paid account). and you are collaborating on a project with Venue Studio Corp., Widget employees and Venue employees can both join a shared Slack channel to discuss location scouting for their upcoming project. Basically, if you work for Widget Film Production Inc. Slack first rolled out Slack Connect last year, which allowed for companies to create channels shared between multiple Slack servers to facilitate business operations. Hours later, the company is already saying "our bad" and promising an update after users demonstrated almost immediately how easy it is to use Connect DM to abuse or harass others. Ubiquitous work-chat platform Slack this morning rolled out a new feature, Connect DM, that allows users to send direct messages to people they don't work with.
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