Rafael Laguna

Rafael Laguna
Co-founder and former CEO of Open-Xchange

Support OpenStreetMap and save our data

Rafael Laguna on Nov 24, 2016

We’ve already discussed the threat to your privacy posed by internet giants like Google and Facebook. Users voluntarily – often unwittingly – hand over valuable personal data to these companies that are then mine...

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Watch out for digital horrors this Halloween

Rafael Laguna on Oct 31, 2016

For a real horror story this Halloween I invite you all to think about the sheer number of organized criminals there are out there, behind the pixels and the code you’re looking at right now. Every year, hundreds...

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OX awarded ‘top player’ status in Radicati 2016 Market Quadrant

Rafael Laguna on May 31, 2016

When you’re busy developing the foundations of Trusted Internet Services, supporting 68.5% of all IMAP server installations and promoting the values of open-source software to society, it can be difficult to step...

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Dismantling the Privacy vs Security Myth

Rafael Laguna on Apr 27, 2016

An encryption backdoor is an oxymoron. The mathematics behind cryptography and the realities of modern cybercrime mean that the presence of a single flaw in encryption technology ensures the inevitable failure of...

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Where do you stand? – Learnings from the Consumer Openness Index

Rafael Laguna on Apr 5, 2016

We’re at a crossroads for data privacy and encryption. In a lot of ways, 2016 is a turning point for how the entire world will define these issues for years to come.

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Learnings from the Consumer Openness Index – Full Report Released Monday 14...

Rafael Laguna on Mar 10, 2016

Opinions around data privacy have hardened considerably in the last 12 months on both sides of the Atlantic, as the topic continues to take greater and greater prevalence in political and national discussions.

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What Apple is doing by taking a stand against the US government on encrypti...

Rafael Laguna on Feb 18, 2016

Apple could technically build a backdoor into the iPhone. But could they do it without serious repercussions? Absolutely not. I completely agree with Tim Cook on this matter – there should be no backdoors or spec...

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Breaking the chains at SXSW; time to put words into action

Rafael Laguna on Feb 18, 2016

Privacy Matters. We’re adamant about that. Apple’s protest this week against the US government’s continued push to weave a backdoor into the iPhones password protection system and thus into everybody’s daily live...

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Safe Harbor – A Voyage of Self-Determination

Rafael Laguna on Feb 3, 2016

What sort of society do you want to live in? It’s one of the most important and substantial questions you can ask. We can expect to disagree about the finer details or even the central tenets of our respective id...

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Wake-up World, Free the Internet at SXSW

Rafael Laguna on Jan 28, 2016

When future generations look back at 2016, what will they think? That, in an age of unprecedented connectivity we’re taking great strides in creativity and freedom with the digital age an outlet for individual ex...

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