What I don't get about Slack or any other 'chat as a service' system is why tech companies would willingly backdoor themselves with a surveillance system to harvest all their most private in-house discussions.
All those chat logs must be worth quite a bit to the right buyers.
@ayy In a world where maybe three companies control every computer of significance in the world?
I wish good luck to anyone competing with one of those three companies.
@ayy It only takes a single buy-out.
I mean if your company has no secrets of any commercial value to a large competitor, I'm sure it's fine and will remain being fine forever.
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