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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by winrid on Thursday December 20, 2018 @12:40PM (#18727068)
Try to propose running your own chat server at any medium to large company. No VP of engineering or CTO wants to worry about that and the possible security risks. If Slack messes up they can blame Slack but if you mess up and expose some Healthcare data to the outside world because of your chat server they are screwed.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by simonsaidit on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:23PM (#18728146)
I’ve seen exactly those reasons by those people in those size companies to explain why slack could not be allowed.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by PascLeRasc on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:56PM (#18728534)
I've seen that too, but it's usually the same people who just reject anything hosted somewhere else with statements like "we're not doing airquotes The Cloud" and think all tech companies are conspiring against us.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by krageon on Friday December 21, 2018 @03:17AM (#18732053)
No, it's because all of the big chat applications are hosted in the US and this is a completely unacceptable country to have any data in.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by winrid on Saturday December 22, 2018 @04:31PM (#18742550)
This is true. If you are in the EU you might not even legally be able to use a US hosted solution depending on what data you are sending over the chat...
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by SamWhited on Thursday December 20, 2018 @06:45PM (#18730290)
I've had the opposite experience; at my last job (a medium sized tech company that you've heard of and probably use tangentially on a daily basis) they wouldn't hear of using anything cloud based because then someone else could potentially leak their data.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by winrid on Saturday December 22, 2018 @04:35PM (#18742568)
Interesting. Even something like AWS?
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by antiphase on Monday December 24, 2018 @02:57PM (#18753949)
Is AWS not cloud-based any more?
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by winrid on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @02:46PM (#18758909)
Just curious how far they're extending this logic.
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