[meritt]

Keep their attitude toward security flaws and the disclosure today in mind when you consider what would happen if your entire company's private chatlogs suddenly became public. Same goes for Hipchat too.

User accounts and passwords are easy to reset and fix.

Credit cards are easy to reset and fix.

Years of private company discussion showing up in the wild? You're unlikely to ever recover.

[SwellJoe]

"Years of private company discussion showing up in the wild? You're unlikely to ever recover."

I'd be angry but my company wouldn't be ruined. The worst thing I ever say in internal communications is to poke fun at a couple of our grumpier or more entitled users. I also probably curse slightly more than is entirely prudent. But, that'd be mildly amusing to have exposed, not ruinous.

Perhaps if you're saying stuff that you would be "unlikely to ever recover from" if it were shared with people outside of your company, maybe that's not the kind of thing you should be saying.

[meritt]

I'm not saying nor worried about statements which are hateful, sexist, racist, etc. Like most mature non-brogrammer companies, we don't have those sort of issues in the first place.

I'd be worried about company strategy, vision, intellectual property, keys/passwords, system infrastructure or other details leaking which could hurt our competitive edge, lessen our valuation, or expose our user's PII.