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The title of this post makes it sound like a bad thing, but in regulated industries like Finance,

firms are required to produce chat transcripts of the traders to regulators. Slack would be unusable in this industry if the firms could not capture all of the chat logs.

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I think this is about making sure only you can create chat transcripts, not Slack. This would greatly increase enterprise adoption if they knew a company easn’t Reading it’s mail. Am I reading this wrong?

Funny because I know large financial companies that have been using Slack for years.

I believe you can still provide chat transcripts from Slack without managing keys yourself.

and you can still intercept all the SSL if you just roll out your own certs to all the workstations and the firewall opens everything..

Isn’t this standard practice in some industries ?

Not all roles require the same level of audit. In general for simplicity, an entire firm will use one system that just applies the same policies for everyone, but a dev building a web interface for an internal risk tool will not be under the same requirements as a sales trader talking to clients and taking orders to execute in the market on their behalf.

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