Slack raises $200M at $3.8B valuation for business messaging
I'm honestly astounded that so many high profile corporations are willing to use slack without an on-premise version.<p>Slack is the only SaaS that has access to, and STORES PERMANENTLY, every important private message, group message, document, commit, internal URLs, .... of your company.<p>At some point in the future, slack <i>will</i> get hacked. Every sufficiently popular product does. It's only a matter of time. And when it does, the data hosted by slack will be an absolute treasure trove for competitive intelligence, "insider" trading, hacking, and a variety of other bad, bad things.<p>Not to mention, an arbitrary number of employees at slack can read the internal communications of any company using their product. I'm sure slack has some "security" measures in place to prevent this, but it would only take one rogue employee with the keys to the kingdom to snoop on any data imaginable.
This seems incredibly dangerous to me...