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rauchg / slackin

slackin

Public Slack organizations made easy

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Public Slack organizations made easy

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	7	2	5
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	5	2	3
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	1	1

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supacruz·Oct 17, 2016

Their slack team seems up and running: https://socketio.slack.com/ However, their invitation page (I guess based on https://github.com/rauchg/slackin) is down: http://slack.socket.io/.

In Ask HN: What's going on with socket.io slack channel?

guessmyname·Sep 2, 2016Submission

Ask HN: Do you use CSRF protection in your forms?

With the popularity of Slack I have noticed that many IT related communities provide a 3rd-party website to receive an invitation to join their channel. However, the majority lack a CSRF protection allowing a malicious user to send spam to random email addresses on behalf of the admin of the channel. This has led communities like Gophers [1] to include a captcha [2] to prevent automated requests, and also modified their Slackin [3] installation to consider duplicated emails — even with the plus sign modifier [4]. I also experienced websites with CSRF tokens via HTTP headers that actually work, or not really because once you remove the header the request stops being blocked. Why is this? Are developers depending too much on package managers to install 3rd-party library to add things like this without checking if they actually work? Do comp

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anies prefer to take the risk of getting bombarded with spam instead of adding an inconvenient steps to their legitimate users with a captcha? Are people taking web security for granted with mainstream frameworks? [1] https://invite.slack.golangbridge.org/ [2] And ironically opened another bug (which is already fixed) where you could send an underscore as the value for the captcha and take down the Heroku instance with the second request, something that I never understood until they (somehow) fixed it. [3] https://github.com/rauchg/slackin [4] echo 'noreply+slack@example.com' | sed 's/\+.*@/@/'

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pyre·Sep 1, 2016

As an example, there is one-click-to-deploy here[1] for Heroku and Azure. [1] https://github.com/rauchg/slackin

In Show HN: A self-hosted alternative to Trello, Basecamp, and Freshbooks

mattkrea·May 31, 2016

This is simply a result of using a product for something it wasn't meant for (i.e. a hack.. or else something like https://github.com/rauchg/slackin wouldn't be necessary). Very 'clickbaity'.

In Major Slack Security Vulnerability Discovered

exolymph·Apr 18, 2016Submission

Did anyone else get bulk-invited to several Slack teams?

I got added to the Slack communties #testing [1] and EmberJS without signing up on purpose, and I know at least one other person who also got a #testing invite. There was some speculation that this was caused by Slackin [2] [1] http://hashtagtesting.com/ [2] https://github.com/rauchg/slackin Discussion in #testing: Ted Han [8:07 PM] Yeah hi, i'm not sure how i got invited, or even what this slack is about [8:07] Testing i presume? [8:08] I'm a little curious what data source my email is being scraped from Jia Qing Yap [8:12 PM] joined #testing. Also, @sonya joined. Sonya Mann [8:40 PM] @knowtheory same, a random invite just showed up in my email inbox Nihal Mirpuri [8:40 PM] joined #testing Sonya Mann [8:40 PM] @beau same thing happened to me -- I also got an invite to EmberJS, which makes no sense sam kreter [8:43 PM] joined #tes

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ting Sonya Mann [8:43 PM] @timhordern why / how did you bulk invite a bunch of people? new messages Ted Han [8:45 PM] sonya: yep i got the Emberjs Slack invitation as well as one for another slack called Dev4Slack [8:46] Seems like the invitations are through the Slackin' form, not actually from Tim Hordern [8:47] sonya: looks like we're both in the BotWiki slack [8:47] i'm guessing that's where our email addies are being scraped from Sonya Mann [8:48 PM] but... why? Ted Han [8:48 PM] Beats me.

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