A surprisingly large number of developers are posting their Slack login credentials to GitHub and other public websites, a practice that in many cases allows anyone to surreptitiously eavesdrop on their conversations and download proprietary data exchanged over the chat service. According to a blog post published Thursday, company researchers recently estimated that about 1,500 access tokens were
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