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Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by closeparen on Friday July 27, 2018 @01:19AM (#17623627)
Companies are generally at more risk from failure to produce message content in a lawsuit, regulatory action, HR investigation, etc. than from eavesdropping. "Secure" in a corporate setting means subject to IT's surveillance, filtering, and archiving. If anything, security's job is to make sure employees aren't using things like PGP, personal webmail, Facebook, etc. to evade corporate retention policies.

Maybe mysterious quasi-state actors will steal your secrets and outcompete you decades from now, but they could probably do that anyway. The SEC will certainly fuck you up right now if you can't demonstrate adequate controls on regulated employees' communications.

Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by tathougies on Friday July 27, 2018 @05:15PM (#17629469)
I'm talking about personal e-mail. Still businesses can easily enforce retention policies with PGP by using a master key.