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Which brings the point, who would ever sign on to use Slack/continue to use Slack when Bezos & Co. could be scouring through your sensitive company conversation
by wonder_bread 9y ago
Which brings the point, who would ever sign on to use Slack/continue to use Slack when Bezos & Co. could be scouring through your sensitive company conversations?
- praneshp 9y agoIs it very different from running all your sensitive company code on Bezos & Co servers?
- wonder_bread 9y agoI'll concede to that to a degree.
- rhino369 9y agoDo the AWS Master Service Agreements really not preclude Amazon from searching through your data for their own purposes?
- wonder_bread 9y agoIt seems unlikely given that Amazon has been rapidly scaling up the services they offer, with some of them conveniently taking the form of companies who run their entire operation on AWS (i.e. Twilio with AWS Contact Center). If somebody can prove me wrong, however, that would be lovely :) Regardless though, expecting Amazon to refrain from taking the proprietary information they have access to (in any form) and drilling you into the ground with their own twist on it seems like a bad bet, just ask Nucleus.
- hueving 9y agoIsn't the only entity that could conclusively determine if the agreement has been violated the very one who would violate it?
- pavel_lishin 9y agoWho would ever sign on to Slack/continue to use Slack when <different corporation> could be scouring through your sensitive company conversations? It's not like Slack can't do so now, if they chose. Companies that don't want to entrust their sensitive conversations to Slack, etc., opt to use on-site Hipchat servers, or other means of communication. Amazon buying Slack doesn't significantly alter their calculus.
- wonder_bread 9y agoSlack isn't in the business of offering competing services based on the data that flows through their systems. Something you can't exactly say is true with Amazon.
- deegles 9y agoIf Amazon wanted to be evil they have a lot more to work with than just chat conversations...
- wonder_bread 9y ago"So what's one more thing"
- deegles 9y agoI get that you don't trust Amazon, but if you think they would protect your data less rigorously than Slack you really need to provide a more substantive argument.
- wonder_bread 9y agoTruth be told I love Amazon for the innovation they've brought to most of the industries they've touched but it's like there's some aura of trust around them just because they have brought some of their might against Facebook and Google which seem to be considered the evil twins on HN.
- deegles 9y agoWhat's wrong with that? I feel like they've earned a measure of trust. Sure, they're not perfect but no one is.
- paulcole 9y agoMe! I don't care what Bezos & Co. are doing with my chat logs.