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Re:Slack raises $200M at $3.8B valuation for business messaging by marcusr on Friday April 01, 2016 @03:53PM (#11408005)
The majority of the corporate world is either already on Office 365 or moving to Office 365 for their email, which could be subject to the same argument.

That said, I think any hacker would die of boredom reading my company's Slack channels before they hit any nugget of interesting information!

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Re:Slack raises $200M at $3.8B valuation for business messaging by Balgair on Friday April 01, 2016 @04:29PM (#11408320)
CtrlF: illegal, $, credit card info, etc.

Again and again, the issue is not the encryption algos, it's the bits between the keyboard and chair. People are stupid.

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Re:Slack raises $200M at $3.8B valuation for business messaging by vijayr on Friday April 01, 2016 @04:24PM (#11408274)
Any hacker capable of hacking slack would likely automate searching of interesting information too :) It is not like they are going to sit and read tons of boring chats!
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Re:Slack raises $200M at $3.8B valuation for business messaging by vthallam on Friday April 01, 2016 @05:06PM (#11408605)
Not everyone is on Google Apps or Office 365. Most of the big corporations outside tech still use self hosted mail servers and use outlook client.
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Re:Slack raises $200M at $3.8B valuation for business messaging by djrogers on Friday April 01, 2016 @05:59PM (#11408912)
This is changing - rapidly. Even some of the biggest companies in the uber-conservative oil and energy industries are moving to O365 and similar.

There are very few holdouts that have no privileged corporate information in one SaaS or another - SFDC, github for enterprise, Workday, netsuite, etc...

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Re:Slack raises $200M at $3.8B valuation for business messaging by 7ewis on Saturday April 02, 2016 @04:08PM (#11413151)
Currently use Google, SFDC, GHE and Workday. NetSuite may be coming soon, we're very much so in the cloud!
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