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From Latin America to the Far East

Vittorio Bertola on Aug 28, 2018

The summer of TES in 2018 goes all around the planet – and for a project that was born in the heart of Europe, this is a great result. In June, as part of the build-up to the ICANN meeting in Panama, the first TE...

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IoT security is not A-OK

Neil Cook on Aug 9, 2018

Everyone knows that the internet can be a dangerous place. Phishing continues to increase in volume and effectiveness, affecting everybody from private users to internet giants like Google and Facebook. Meanwhile...

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ID4me – a global open standard for every user’s digital Identity

The Editorial Team on Jul 25, 2018

Many users are tired of remembering hundreds of usernames and passwords. Only a short percentage of users is changing their passwords on a regular base. And when choosing a password „easy to remember“ usually bea...

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Microsoft’s on / off love affair with open source

Rafael Laguna on Jun 7, 2018

Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub could go one of two ways. On one hand, it’s great that Microsoft is investing heavily in open source. Until now, its business model has relied on siloed ‘walled gardens’, which h...

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#Kubecon - A wrap up

Andrea Tosatto on Jun 5, 2018

The latest Kubecon in Copenhagen was "extra dope" as Kelsey Hightower might say. Hightower is one of the leaders of the Kubernetes community, and Kubecon is the community's main event. And for sure, this year's K...

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Open source = privacy. Closed source = privacy of a certain sort.

Vittorio Bertola on May 23, 2018

Ben Thompson of Stratechery recently wrote a blog post arguing that open, federated messaging systems are inherently less secure than their closed counterparts. I disagree with his opinion. It has been claimed th...

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OX Guard and the EFAIL Vulnerability

Rafael Laguna on May 16, 2018

On Monday, a German and Belgian research team posted a paper demonstrating a potential vulnerability in PGP and SMIME encrypted emails, named EFAIL. The described vulnerability may result in some email clients le...

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OX “Top Player” in Radicati 2018 Market Quadrant for 4th year in a row

Rafael Laguna on May 14, 2018

The Open-Xchange team has no doubt had a very busy year, focusing on evolving our products further, sharing our vision of an open-source software and communicating its benefits to society. A few highlights includ...

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Responsible data - it’s not only possible, it’s essential

Neil Cook on May 9, 2018

Verizon’s Oath, which owns both Yahoo and AOL, has recently updated privacy policies pertaining to its use of user data, including scanning of user emails, instant messages, photos and other data on any of its su...

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Open-Xchange joins the Open Cloud Foundation

Vittorio Bertola on May 3, 2018

Open-Xchange is glad to announce that it is joining the Open Cloud Foundation, the new global industry body that brings together cloud solution providers, customer organizations and researchers to actively promot...

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