> but by this logic I should keep all my money under the mattress instead of the bank, no?
More like "by this logic I should keep all my money under the mattress instead of in a jar in my cousin's pantry, no?"
Slack isn't a secure vault for data, it's a communications tool. They obviously have some amount of security but that's not their purpose, whereas a bank is intended to store money.
I think running your own IRC is a perfectly acceptable solution if you value your data.
More like "by this logic I should keep all my money under the mattress instead of in a jar in my cousin's pantry, no?"
Slack isn't a secure vault for data, it's a communications tool. They obviously have some amount of security but that's not their purpose, whereas a bank is intended to store money.
I think running your own IRC is a perfectly acceptable solution if you value your data.