You're really going to make excuses for Slack here? 'o'/'о' is just about the easiest possible homograph attack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_att

You're really going to make excuses for Slack here? 'o'/'о' is just about the easiest possible homograph attack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack) that there is: > When it was his time to leave, McKay swapped out his existing profile picture for one that resembled an angrier version of Slackbot’s actual icon. He also changed his name to “Slackbot.” You can’t just change your name on Slack to “Slackbot,” by the way, as the service will tell you that name’s already been taken. It does work if you use a special character that resembles one of the letters inside Slackbot, though, such as replacing “o” with the Unicode character “о.” And in fact, this exact pair of English/Cyrillic was used in one of the first published homoglyph attacks: https://web.archive.org/web/20200102175251/http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gabr/papers/homograph_full.pdf#page=2 https://web.archive.org/web/20200102175251/http://www.cs.tec... back in 2001! In 2022, Slack had a valuation of something like $20b and had been in operation for almost a decade. And their business is username-based software for people who need security ie. organizations/businesses.