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Slack is banning users who have visited U.S.-sanctioned countries while using its app

sudshr47 December 20, 2018

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If you’ve ever visited Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Syria, or the Crimea region, you should probably check if you’re Slack account is still active.

Early Thursday morning, Slack users began reporting the real-time messaging app had sent a message notifying them that they had been banned from the service. The reasoning given to these banned users: U.S. economic sanction laws and regulations.

“Slack complies with the U.S. regulations related to embargoed countries and regions. As such, we prohibit unauthorized Slack use in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria and the Crimea region of Ukraine,” Slack said in a statement provided to Mashable. “Our systems may have detected an account and/or a workspace owner on our platform with an IP address originating from a designated embargoed country. If our systems indicate a workspace primary owner has an IP address originating from a designated embargoed country, the entire workspace will be deactivated. If someone thinks any actions we took were done in error, we will review further.” Read more…

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Slack shuts down accounts belonging to Iranian expats and users who visited Iran

sudshr47 December 20, 2018

A number of Slack users report that they have suddenly lost access to their accounts with no warning in what appears to be an aggressive implementation of U.S. sanctions on Iran. In some cases, users have reported seeing revoked their access to free, public Slack groups, while access to paid accounts remains. Administrators of the […]

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Report: Slack is prepping an IPO for next year, with Goldman Sachs as its lead underwriter

sudshr47 December 8, 2018

Slack, the workplace messaging company, has hired investment bank Goldman Sachs to lead its IPO next year, according to a Reuters report. Reuters’ sources say the company is hoping to nab a valuation of “well over $10 billion.” The WSJ reported back in September that Slack was “actively preparing” for an IPO in the first […]

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Google is killing off Allo, its latest messaging app flop

sudshr47 December 6, 2018

It’s official: Google is killing off Allo. The messaging app was only launched in September 2016 but it was pretty much flawed from the word go with limited usage. Google was, once again, painfully late to the messaging game. The company said it had ceased work on the service earlier this year, and now it has announced […]

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Metacert’ Cryptonite can catch phishing links in your email

sudshr47 November 13, 2018

Metacert, founded by Paul Walsh, originally began as a way to watch chat rooms for fake Ethereum scams. Walsh, who was an early experimenter in cryptocurrencies, grew frustrated when he saw hackers dumping fake links into chat rooms, resulting in users regularly losing cash to scammers. Now Walsh has expanded his software to email. A […]

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Slack on an SNES? Engineer beams Slack messages to decades old Super Nintendo game

sudshr47 October 21, 2018

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The Super Nintendo really was far ahead of its time.

Bertrand Fan, a senior engineer for the messaging and chat application Slack, recently came across an interesting find. During the mid-’90s in Japan, Nintendo released a satellite modem peripheral for its SNES game console (called the Super Famicom over there).

Known as the Satellaview, Nintendo would beam daily broadcasts to gamers’ consoles. According to Fan, Nintendo actually did this for years, broadcasting content over Satellaview every day from April 1995 to June 2000. 

This gave Fan an idea. “If you can beam satellite signals to a SNES, you can probably run Slack on it,” the engineer said in a post. So, that’s what Fan set out to do. Read more…

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Slack is down, time to slack

sudshr47 September 11, 2018

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Slack, the popular biz-oriented chat service, is down for many users this morning. 

The company confirmed the issues which people were reporting (me included) early Tuesday. 

“We’re investigating as we speak,” the tweet said, but no reasons behind the outage were given. If we learn the reasons, we’ll share them here. 

We’re getting reports that customers can’t connect to Slack. We’re investigating as we speak and we apologize for the disruptionhttps://t.co/gcBwKJRY91

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