Hi Human! Here at Keybase , we manage our own infrastructure via “chatops.” That is, we collaborate in a chat channel where we discuss and perform deployments. Chatops is great because: the discussion and the actions are coordinated it can be done on the road, from a mobile chat interface Here's a screengrab from my iPhone's Keybase app: Above we see @amarcedone asking a bot for a server graph. And @joshblum deploying a program. And then in our desktop app, a celebration of software well done: Chatops like this might sound or look familiar. But in our case, there's no dangerous man-in-the-middle. Why this is better than plaintext Trusting a plaintext-chat as a devops chat manager comes with 3 monster risks: a breach of it . When a script-kiddie, black hat, motorhead, geek, waistoid, or evil nation state finds their way into the chat company's infrastructure, now they are in your devops, too . As a good rule of thumb, you ...