Ostensibly better opsec
Comment on Disney hack leads to 1.2TB of Slack communications leaked online
cmhe@lemmy.world 2 months agoWgy would disney demand that?
Why would they choose slack if they want to host, maintain and be responsible for the internal chat themselves?
They choose slack because they do it for them so that they don’t have to do it themselves. That is the selling point for them.
bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
towerful@programming.dev 2 months ago
They can still have support contracts and SLA etc from slack.
It’s just that the servers slack runs on are on-prem and completely controlled by the business buying into the self hosted licence.
The benefits should be tighter security (say, can only be accessed via VPN), and for many many MAU probably lower costs. Chances are, Disney already has datacenter ops and hardware contracts.
And why choose slack? For quite a while, it was extremely common for developers (maybe even industry standard?). It had loads of features very small features of internal chat programs. And it’s easy to build extensions and integrations for.
I’m not saying that Disney is running on-prem slack, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were