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Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by scubaguy »

howeyc wrote: post #27

Awesome, pretty soon companies wont have to store any of "their" data on their own servers. Facebook - Company info/announcements/chat OneDrive/Google/Dropbox - Company documents VOIP Services - Company communications All stored in clear-text obviously (or at least not encrypted by company using the service before transfer to said services, same thing really). I myself think this trend is hilariously ridiculous, but…

Don't forget Hipchat/Slack - IM

How about putting emphasis on "have to" instead? For most people, the advantage of these services is that you get very good services for little cost. It's simply cheaper to use 3rd party services. That why they've become so popular.

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by king_jester »

berberous wrote: post #50
howeyc wrote: post #27

Awesome, pretty soon companies wont have to store any of "their" data on their own servers. Facebook - Company info/announcements/chat OneDrive/Google/Dropbox - Company documents VOIP Services - Company communications All stored in clear-text obviously (or at least not encrypted by company using the service before transfer to said services, same thing really). I myself think this trend is hilariously ridiculous, but…

Well, what's your threat model that you are worried about? I would imagine all of these companies have much better security and reliability than most internal IT departments. And I don't see them snooping for their own purposes. The NSA can get what they want anyways. The one big issue is subpoena's / third party doctrine issues, but I imagine for many companies that's a decent tradeoff for the reduced IT overhead /…

> And I don't see them snooping for their own purposes.

That is contrary to the history of how companies take advantage of data provided to them, even when that data is supposed to be confidential.

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by higherpurpose »

howeyc wrote: post #27

Awesome, pretty soon companies wont have to store any of "their" data on their own servers. Facebook - Company info/announcements/chat OneDrive/Google/Dropbox - Company documents VOIP Services - Company communications All stored in clear-text obviously (or at least not encrypted by company using the service before transfer to said services, same thing really). I myself think this trend is hilariously ridiculous, but…

The question companies should be asking themselves is "How bad do you want NSA/FBI/police to scour through your data without ever telling you about it?"

If the answer is "Pretty bad!" - then they should go ahead and sign-up for Facebook at Work.

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by lern_too_spel »

antsar wrote: post #48
binarymax wrote: post #5

I wonder what guarantees on data confidentiality will be offered? Facebook doesn't have a good reputation when it comes to privacy. I do not believe any serious workplace will trust them with handling any company data and IP.

The same way that no serious workplace trusts Google/Dropbox with handling any company data and IP today, right?

Presumably, he's referring to SSAE-16 auditing, like for Google's products. The problem of auditing suppliers of parts and services is decades old and effectively already solved.

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by jameshart »

howeyc wrote: post #27

Awesome, pretty soon companies wont have to store any of "their" data on their own servers. Facebook - Company info/announcements/chat OneDrive/Google/Dropbox - Company documents VOIP Services - Company communications All stored in clear-text obviously (or at least not encrypted by company using the service before transfer to said services, same thing really). I myself think this trend is hilariously ridiculous, but…

Better you upload your unencrypted data to a third party you know about, than that some hacker collective uploads your unencrypted data to pastebin for you. I think Sony pictures would have been quite a lot better off if their data was all on Google drive and Facebook.

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by rjsw »

howeyc wrote: post #27

Awesome, pretty soon companies wont have to store any of "their" data on their own servers. Facebook - Company info/announcements/chat OneDrive/Google/Dropbox - Company documents VOIP Services - Company communications All stored in clear-text obviously (or at least not encrypted by company using the service before transfer to said services, same thing really). I myself think this trend is hilariously ridiculous, but…

I guess ERP will be the next thing to end up in the cloud, probably wouldn't be too hard for Facebook to extend this new product to generate timesheets for each employee.

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by Navarr »

ihsw wrote: post #36
forgottenpass wrote: post #6

Isn't Facebook already Facebook for Work? I'm sanitizing my internet presence for employment reasons and their moderation kills anything approaching NSWF so facebook can be wide open on work desktops. They're not naming any of their hot new collaboration tools, so they're just ripping off google docs then?

Google Docs doesn't have the much-vaunted "stream." Going to docs.google.com simply brings up, well, docs.

Google+ does though.. but I guess that really only applies to Google Apps accounts

http://i.imgur.com/53t8rKS.png

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by cglee »

rjsw wrote: post #86
howeyc wrote: post #27

Awesome, pretty soon companies wont have to store any of "their" data on their own servers. Facebook - Company info/announcements/chat OneDrive/Google/Dropbox - Company documents VOIP Services - Company communications All stored in clear-text obviously (or at least not encrypted by company using the service before transfer to said services, same thing really). I myself think this trend is hilariously ridiculous, but…

I guess ERP will be the next thing to end up in the cloud, probably wouldn't be too hard for Facebook to extend this new product to generate timesheets for each employee.

Salesforce has been pushing this for years.

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by fragsworth »

jameshart wrote: post #85
howeyc wrote: post #27

Awesome, pretty soon companies wont have to store any of "their" data on their own servers. Facebook - Company info/announcements/chat OneDrive/Google/Dropbox - Company documents VOIP Services - Company communications All stored in clear-text obviously (or at least not encrypted by company using the service before transfer to said services, same thing really). I myself think this trend is hilariously ridiculous, but…

Better you upload your unencrypted data to a third party you know about, than that some hacker collective uploads your unencrypted data to pastebin for you. I think Sony pictures would have been quite a lot better off if their data was all on Google drive and Facebook.

Sony was probably the victim of an insider (http://nypost.com/2014/12/30/new-evidence-sony-hack-was-insi...).

It is incredibly difficult to prevent attacks from technical people inside your own company, and when this happens to a company like Google or Facebook it will be a huge disaster.

Re: Facebook Unveils Facebook at Work

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Post by dingaling »

rjsw wrote: post #86
howeyc wrote: post #27

Awesome, pretty soon companies wont have to store any of "their" data on their own servers. Facebook - Company info/announcements/chat OneDrive/Google/Dropbox - Company documents VOIP Services - Company communications All stored in clear-text obviously (or at least not encrypted by company using the service before transfer to said services, same thing really). I myself think this trend is hilariously ridiculous, but…

I guess ERP will be the next thing to end up in the cloud, probably wouldn't be too hard for Facebook to extend this new product to generate timesheets for each employee.

SAP is already in the cloud and winding-down its on-your-site applications.

http://www.sap.com/pc/tech/cloud.html

They're buying-up cloud app vendors as fast as Oracle is...

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