A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months

Hiding on Slack isn’t all that hard, apparently; you just have to pretend you’re a bot. That’s what IT Brew’s Tom McKay did when he left Gizmodo in 2022, and he went undetected by the site’s management for months. In a post on X, McKay shared some screenshots of the new “Slackbot” persona he took [...]read moreA former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months