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A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months (www.theverge.com)
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A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months::Former Gizmodo writer Tom McKay managed to stay in the company’s workplace Slack even after leaving. All he had to do was change his name to “Slackbot.”

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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gizmodo was bought out by a bucket of shitheads that clearly dont have their IT sorted, so it sounds like he did this out of a sense of mischief and curiosity.

It's a fun IT story he got on leaving a bad org. Sounds like a win for a tech writer.