ECP NetHappenings What happens when your told DMs are Private

What happens when your told DMs are Private

Peter Girnus @gothburz
I work at Slack.

We tell employees their DMs are private.

And they are.

Mostly.

Look, when we say “private” we mean private between you and the person you’re messaging.

And your admin.

And HR.

And legal.

And whatever compliance tool your company bought.

And the export logs.

And the backup systems.

And anyone with a court order.

But other than that, totally private.

We’re very clear about this in our documentation.

Page 47.

Section 12.

Subsection C.

Paragraph 8.

The part nobody reads before they trash-talk their manager at 11pm.

Here’s what employees don’t understand.

When you delete a message, you’re just deleting it from your view.

The message still exists.

In exports.

In backups.

In the retention policy.

It’s like closing your eyes and thinking you’re invisible.

The data belongs to the company, not you.

We say this right in our terms.

Workspace owners control everything.

They decide how long messages are stored.

Sometimes it’s 30 days.

Sometimes it’s forever.

Hope you didn’t say anything spicy in 2019.

Enterprise customers get extra features.

Full message exports.

Metadata tracking.

Who messaged whom.

When.

How often.

Communication patterns.

It’s for “compliance.”

It’s for “legal needs.”

It’s for “regulatory requirements.”

It’s definitely not for micromanagement.

We’re very careful to explain that admins can’t see messages in real-time.

They have to formally request an export.

Fill out some forms.

Click some buttons.

Maybe wait an hour.

Very high barrier.

Almost impossible to abuse.

The key takeaway is simple.

Treat Slack like work email.

Not like WhatsApp.

Not like Signal.

Just because it looks like a chat app doesn’t mean it works like one.

If a message could cause trouble when HR reads it, don’t send it.

This is empowering employees with knowledge.

If you wouldn’t say it in the break room with your manager behind you, don’t type it in Slack.

That’s privacy.

Informed privacy.

Enterprise-grade informed privacy.

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Last minute bitcoin gift for Kids

Dec 22 Mark Moss @1MarkMoss

Looking for a last minute gift for your kids, your nieces, nephews, whatever…

Here’s how to give them the gift of Bitcoin.

When I was a kid, my aunts and uncles gave me Treasury bonds.

But my parents had to hold them, nobody remembered where they went, and of course…

they ended up being basically worthless.

But giving Bitcoin isn’t that easy either…

here’s the issue with Bitcoin gifts:

1. Kids under 18 can’t legally have a River or Swan account.

2. Hardware wallets are like a hundred bucks, so that makes no sense if you’re giving less than that.

3. And little kids don’t even have phones.

So here’s what I did instead.

STEP 1
I downloaded a basic Bitcoin wallet app and created a separate wallet for each kid.

STEP 2
I sent about $50 of Bitcoin into each one.

STEP 3
Each wallet has its own seed phrase. I printed it out and the. I gave one copy to the parents, and I kept one backup.

STEP 4
Then I printed the public address QR code, put it in a small picture frame, and hung it on their wall.

So now they can scan it anytime and see their Bitcoin growing… but nobody can spend it.

After that, I deleted the wallet app completely.

The Bitcoin only exists via the seed phrase.

And every birthday, Christmas, Easter or whenever… I can just send more Bitcoin to that same address.

They watch it stack up for years.

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Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat becomes the 2nd most downloaded app in Jamaica as Hurricane Melissa knocks out communications across the Caribbean
Bitchat enables peer-to-peer messaging without relying on centralized servers

BTC

The inventor of Bitcoin once posted, “I had to write all the code before I could convince myself that I could solve every problem, then I wrote the paper.”

I appreciate your questions.
I actually did this kind of backwards.
I had to write all the code before I could convince myself that I could solve every problem, then I wrote the paper.
I think I will be able to release the code sooner than I could write a detailed spec. You’re already right about most of your assumptions where you filled in the blanks.
Satoshi Nakamoto

Bitcoin started with a whitepaper Satoshi sent to the Cypherpunk mailing list in 2008. 2009, Satoshi released the code for Bitcoin. In the code Satoshi put the words “Chancellor on brink of second bail out for banks.” It is from this humble beginnings that Bitcoin started fighting the system. As we reach $100k a coin I want us to reminisce the good old days in 2013 when Bitcoin’s price was $100. In 2013 some OG’s realized that what Satoshi had released into the world was a weapon that every person could use to defend their economic freedom from central banks and governments. This weapon was unstoppable and fearless just like the honey badger, which is why they called Bitcoin the honey badger of money and boy were they right, from a mailing list to being an issue in a presidential election, to nations discussing Strategic Bitcoin Reserves. Lets take a look at some of the OGs tweets from 2013.
Chancellor on brink of second bail out for banks
01/03/2009

Today’s #OptOutOctober tip: Tweak your privacy settings so you’re not inadvertently sharing your most personal data with the entire world

I thought houses with sex offenders can’t hand out candy on Halloween?

Gavin Newsom: “I really am scared to death about what’s going on in this country. I really believe it is Code Red. It’s five-alarm fire. It’s breaking every hour of every day. We won’t have a country. We won’t have an election that’s fair and free if we don’t stand up”

 

Kerry Kennedy, sister of RFK Jr. and daughter of Robert Kennedy, on her brother:
“I am disgusted by my brother’s obscene embrace of Donald Trump. And I completely disavow and dissociate myself from Robert Kennedy Jr. and his flagrant efforts to desecrate my father’s memory.”

‘How it happened in Cuba’: Pop superstar Gloria Estefan now carries her passport ‘just in case’

@Suzierizzo1
Well if you go to Project 2025 and look at page 299 it’s obvious why Trump is messing with SNAP it’s because he’s been planning on getting rid of it for good and this is his chance so don’t expect to get it back after November and Social Security is next! Wake the F up MAGA!

Republicans want to starve children to pressure Democrats into gutting healthcare. How do we know? Mike Johnson just admitted it.

Sen. Schumer: What’s Trump doing? He’s busy building his ballroom, dancing in Malaysia, sending $40 billion to Argentina, $170 million in luxury jets for Kristi Noem. They have money for that and not for healthcare. It’s a disgrace.

@donwinslow
Reality check:
Trump is wildly out control
Economy is crashing.
ICE is Trump’s private army w/unlimited budget.
They are practicing controlling cities.
They are conditioning Americans to accept military control.
They have plans to use emergency powers to stop/control mid-terms.

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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

Many of them are named. No one cares to do anything about it.
Journalist Julie K. Brown reported many of these names years ago.
More important: Virginia Giuffre said them under oath — on record — in court. And she said them out loud, up until her death earlier this year.

The names were said under oath, and still nothing moved. That silence is complicity. Publishing them again isn’t gossip — it’s accountability. If justice failed behind closed doors, then the world deserves to hear every name in the open.

“He tried to kill his own Vice President, do you think he cares about you?” ~ BARACK OBAMA

TRUMP IS CAPTAIN CHAOS
EVERYDAY HE GRABS YOUR EYEBALL
AND WEARS YOU OUT

!!! THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF PROPAGANDA !!!

APPROVAL RATINGS
Enten: “Trump is doing absolutely awful in the minds of the American people. We’re talking about new lows. CNBC, -13 net approval on the economy. It’s -19 among Quinnipiac … Trump is at his lowest point ever in either of his terms. He’s not just beating himself with record lows — this is the lowest for any president ever at this point in either a presidency or for a second term.”
Executive Summary
Americans remain pessimistic about the country’s direction and the state of the country, with sharp partisan reversals since 2024.
https://prri.org/research/trumps-unprecedented-actions-deepen-asymmetric-divides/

THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY PLOT

Trump has stocked his administration with officials who deny he lost the 2020 election. Some say he should invoke a “national emergency” and usurp state and local control over voting. Voting rights advocates say he may try to “hijack” the 2026 election.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-emergency-hijack-2026-election

“To sit home, read one’s favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

Inmate P01135809-e1694795412911

TEARING THE WHITE HOUSE DOWN

WHEN DID TRUMP BEGIN TEARING DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE ?
Two days AFTER October 18th NO KINGS PROTEST

NOTHING TO SEE HERE

Everywhere you look in the Trump White House. Before you even get to the Ballroom of Bribery.

“Destruction of federal property
is a federal crime.”

Yeah, well, looks like Trump just committed one with a $300 million price tag and a bulldozer. If any other American did this, they’d already be in handcuffs. Trump is immune and he knows it.

18 U.S. Code § 1361 defines the crime as willfully injuring or committing any depredation against U.S. government property. If the damage exceeds $1k it is a felony with a fine, up to ten years in prison or both.”
Awaiting law enforcement and something other than utter cowardice.

“The most transparent administration in U.S. history” sure does love to hide what they’re doing from the public.

US Secret Service has closed access to the Ellipse park where journalists had been capturing live images of the East Wing demolition.  CNN had a photojournalist capturing live images of the demolition at the time. Reuters was also ushered out of the park. This is far more problematic than the actual destruction of the East Wing. Pair this with the shrinking media ownership issue and the government picking and choosing which outlets they tolerate questions from and we’re way further down the authoritarian road.

Of all the egregious things Trump has done…. Sex Assault, Adultery with Porn Star, Alliance with Putin, Emoluments, Jan6 Riots, Shakedown of DOJ for $$, EPSTEIN FILES – just to name a few, Crazy to think that Bulldozing the White House may be the THING that brings him down.

BALL ROOM
GIRLS 13 AND UNDER GET IN FOR FREE

Will White House be painted gold?

Can’t have y’all filming the new bunker he’ll build, that he’ll use, once he refuses to leave.

No approvals, no permits, no design approval, nothing!!! He did say there would be no changes to existing building. He lied!!!!
We are asking Congress to exercise its oversight powers and investigate how the executive branch is allowed to destroy the historic facade of the White House without adhering to any process or review.
Ask your members of Congress to investigate here.

Trump slashed USAID so that children die for want of $2 mosquito nets or 12-cent-a-day medicines–but he now is backing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina that will pour money into the pockets of billionaire hedge fund investors. GIFT ARTICLE

@laurenboebert @RepBoebert son was in criminal court again today. She is law and order until it’s about her kid.

DATING APP TINDER
Tinder to expand face verification tech to more states.
The program, dubbed Face Check, is already required for users in California and several countries including Canada, Colombia and India.
Face Check is designed to combat impersonation, bots and phony accounts.
The videos are erased after an account is verified, according to Tinder. However, the dating app keeps what it calls a “non-reversible, encrypted face map and face vector” on hand to prevent duplicate accounts, detect fraud and verify new photos.

McMahone IS INCHARGE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Philadelphia’s youngest learners aren’t getting support services they’re legally entitled to
How Philly’s early intervention program is failing the city’s youngest kids
Federal law states a child must receive services as soon as possible after an evaluation team completes their Individualized Education Program, or IEP. Pennsylvania has interpreted that to mean 14 days. But one provider said the list she can access of children waiting for speech therapy — one of several early intervention services — is sometimes more than 2,000 families long.

TARIFFS

PRESIDENT REAGAN: “When someone says let’s impose tariffs, it may look like they’re doing the patriotic thing… but over the long run trade barriers hurt every worker.”

Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor
Thanks to Donald Trump’s tariffs, Americans are currently experiencing one of the largest tax increases in American history.
This is a code red for our economy.

SCOTUS

NEW POLL: “Most Americans (75%) agree there should be term limits for Supreme Court justices, while less than 1/4 disagree (22%).
“Most Democrats (85%), independents (76%) & Republicans (67%) agree there should be #SCOTUS term limits,”

POLITICS

BTCBITCOIN IS ONLY BITCOIN
BITCOIN IS BITCOIN  

CRYPTO = SHITCOINS
WHICH ARE ALL THE REST

The Trump family is involved in several “SHITCOIN” cryptocurrency ventures, primarily through World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a company co-founded by Donald Trump’s sons, Eric and Donald Jr.. The firm has issued multiple digital assets, including the $WLFI governance token and USD1,  a dollar-backed stablecoin launched in April 2025. As of September 2025, the Trump family’s stake in WLFI was valued at approximately $5 billion, with Donald Trump personally holding around 15.75 billion WLFI tokens worth over $3.4 billion. The family receives 75% of the net protocol revenues from WLFI through a related entity, DT Marks DEFI LLC.

Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the crypto exchange Binance, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company.

BREAKING: Binance’s CZ has been pardoned by Trump
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-pardons-convicted-binance-founder-7509bd63
“Trump pardons CZ, the convicted founder of Binance… following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company.” — WSJ

Binance invested US$500 million towards the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk that completed in October 2022. Following the investment, the company announced the creation of a team to work on how blockchain and cryptocurrencies could be helpful to Twitter.
The Gulf State’s sovereign wealth fund put $375 million towards Elon Musk’s Twitter deal, giving Qatar a stake in the social media network just weeks before it hosted one of the world’s largest sporting events.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2022/11/12/qatars-backing-of-elon-musks-twitter-deal-raises-questions-ahead-of-the-fifa-world-cup/

Trump let George Santos out of jail just to make it clear that if you’re loyal to him, you can get away with anything. This isn’t a democracy if one man decides what’s a crime and what isn’t.
Time for everyone to wake up. This moment is more serious than many want to believe.

Palantir said on Thursday it had struck a partnership with Lumen Technologies that will see the telecommunications company using the data management company’s AI software to build capabilities to support enterprise AI services.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/palantir-enters-200m-partnership-with-telco-lumen-for-enterprise-ai-services

AI

In light of Anthropic paying $1.5B to settle a suit over intellectual property rights of authors, The Authors Guild, meanwhile, said the settlement “marks a milestone in authors’ fights against AI companies’ theft of their works. It sends a clear signal to AI companies that infringement of authors’ rights comes at a steep price and will undoubtedly push AI companies towards acquiring the books they want legally, through licensing.”
@simondgoldsteiN and @PeterSalib argue that copyright protection against AI training is a bad idea because it would suppress, not promote, the production of new ideas.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/copyright-should-not-protect-artists-from-artificial-intelligence

An OpenAI executive expects the “entire economy” to become an “Reinforcement Learning Machine.”
This implies that AI might train on recordings of how professionals in all fields handle day-to-day work on their devices. Details on this new era of AI training:
• AI developers are training models on carefully curated examples of answers to difficult questions.
• Data labeling firms are hiring experienced professionals in niche fields to complete real-world tasks using specific applications that the AI can watch.
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-openai-developing-ai-co-workers

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