It is based in a german project (http://www.egroupware.org/)

Cool. Since they think that project is more secured than MS Outlook, I wonder if the government has requested to audit or not.

The (brazilian) government is the maintainer of the software. Why would it require an audit?

They are making the claim that they are doing it for security reasons, why wouldn't they want the code audited? A gov't employee could write a backdoor just like a private sector employee.

Ok, maybe I should rephrase that.

Who would do an audit?

Because the obvious candidate is Serpro, but they are already developing it. Anyway, it's open source, so if any part of the government (military maybe, ABIN, or some university) thinks that it deserves an audit, it can simply do it, no need for formalization.

I use the expresso daily, it's not a good platform, lot of limitations! But at least, is a response for the spying. Better than doing nothing! Hope this investment change expresso in a better way!

Some day, just for fun, I have broken some gov site using expresso. I got full remote code execution (for test, I just uploaded a php file with a phpinfo()). And I'm not a security expert. I think my govern has a lot of work to do to make their email more secure...

A question from someone that'll probably have to start using it soon: Can you back-up your emails in a way where the central IT of your place can't delete them?

Yes. You can use local storage.

Thanks, that's a relief. I was afraid there were other reasons to push the system. It's great that I was wrong :)

Why the Y Combinator model don't work/exist in other countries? If this model spread to other countries it will be awesome, imagine the number of good ideas dying, when they just need a push.

>People sometimes think they could improve the startup scene in their town by starting something like Y Combinator there, but in fact it will have near zero effect http://www.paulgraham.com/maybe.html

Y Combinator's first batch was in Boston, this essay explain why being in Silicon Valley in important and why it's very difficult to replicate.

Culture, people, experience, business environment, lack of year-round shorts weather, ....

It does, TechStars in particular has a huge number of affiliates around the world.

In fairness, the TechStars model isn't quite the same model.

For instance, YC rather explicitly doesn't provide shared office spaces. The shared office space of a TechStars location is a large startup community galvanizer in the cities where TechStars has set up shop - and partially offsets the need to be in the Valley for those companies.

There's no question that TechStars is tweaking the YC model subtilely in its attempts to get global outreach. (This is a good thing, the world could use more experimentation.)

StartMate in Sydney has produced some pretty awesome companies. They are worth checking out.

You will not regret, if you analyze her companies you will see that he transform every market he worked. Paypal is still (my opinion) the best online payment system, space x is the first private company to explore the space and already has a lot of success, tesla is only starting but i think everyone will need and want a eletric car with free charges all over the US.

Yes, I agree that Elon would likely take the company to profitability but it will be interesting to see if there is any money to be made by stock owners of today when Tesla hits profitability tomorrow.

hope to see all the web like this!

When i saw the movie i feel sorry for this guys "using" IE