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So many passwords will be in there. And cat photos.
Passwords and lotsa creds. I know an infra engineer who stores all of the keys to the projects he's involved in his message to self Slack. When I asked him about it he told me 'when I found out that the company billed my time 5x my salary to clients I stopped caring' and I was like OK that's fair ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Depends. Our engineering slack (Few thousand members) doesn't contain secrets for a few reasons:
This has been incredibly effective. Especially the secret bot.
Turns out that the problem with people sharing secrets is just a matter of convenience. If you make a secure way convenient then everyone tends to just use it by default.
"Secret Bot" sounds great!
Custom in-house or off the shelf?
In house.
Thank you. It sounds spectacular and well thought out. You must work with a great team.