Slack enables customers to control their encryption keys in enterprise version
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Re: Slack enables customers to control their encryption keys in enterprise version
#2Reads more like "Hands over control to any customer that will pay for it."[1]
I wonder if the UI shows the employees that their employers have the keys.
[1] Edit: as opposed to only regulated customers. Also, there's an upcharge...you don't automatically get control.
Re: Slack enables customers to control their encryption keys in enterprise version
#3At this point, between no encryption, horrible clients, mistreatment of irc users, and questionable corporate behavior there's nothing in Slack that's worth saving it for me. Superior free software alternatives exist that bring the same or better functionality while also giving the user full control.
Re: Slack enables customers to control their encryption keys in enterprise version
#4At this point, between no encryption, horrible clients, mistreatment of irc users, and questionable corporate behavior there's nothing in Slack that's worth saving it for me. Superior free software alternatives exist that bring the same or better functionality while also giving the user full control.
Which free alternatives?
Re: Slack enables customers to control their encryption keys in enterprise version
#5At this point, between no encryption, horrible clients, mistreatment of irc users, and questionable corporate behavior there's nothing in Slack that's worth saving it for me. Superior free software alternatives exist that bring the same or better functionality while also giving the user full control.
Which free alternatives?
Matrix is the most popular one I think.
Re: Slack enables customers to control their encryption keys in enterprise version
#6Reads more like "Hands over control to any customer that will pay for it." [1] I wonder if the UI shows the employees that their employers have the keys. [1] Edit: as opposed to only regulated customers. Also, there's an upcharge...you don't automatically get control.
I am pretty sure that this was already true anyway - after all anyone with enough money could just buy the company.
Yet another reason to use e2e encryption and authentication.
Re: Slack enables customers to control their encryption keys in enterprise version
#7At this point, between no encryption, horrible clients, mistreatment of irc users, and questionable corporate behavior there's nothing in Slack that's worth saving it for me. Superior free software alternatives exist that bring the same or better functionality while also giving the user full control.
What does any of that have to do with this article (other than that it's about Slack)? The ability for enterprises to control their keys is hardly unusual.
Re: Slack enables customers to control their encryption keys in enterprise version
#8At this point, between no encryption, horrible clients, mistreatment of irc users, and questionable corporate behavior there's nothing in Slack that's worth saving it for me. Superior free software alternatives exist that bring the same or better functionality while also giving the user full control.
Which free alternatives?
Re: Slack enables customers to control their encryption keys in enterprise version
#9Reads more like "Hands over control to any customer that will pay for it." [1] I wonder if the UI shows the employees that their employers have the keys. [1] Edit: as opposed to only regulated customers. Also, there's an upcharge...you don't automatically get control.
There are industries where you have no expectation of privacy at work because all comms are required to be monitored and stored due to the law. So this new feature really enables them to serve these customers who operate under such laws.
Re: Slack enables customers to control their encryption keys in enterprise version
#10At this point, between no encryption, horrible clients, mistreatment of irc users, and questionable corporate behavior there's nothing in Slack that's worth saving it for me. Superior free software alternatives exist that bring the same or better functionality while also giving the user full control.
Which free alternatives?
Matrix, Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, and that's just off the top of my head. All three are free (as in speech) and aren't terribly hard to set up on-premise or spin up a container for somewhere else.