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I would like to see how this turns out considering how miserably the US's Healthcare.gov site has been going. It sounds like the Brazilian govt. is using an internal group (the Federal Data Processing Service [SERPRO]) to do this, while the US sourced the work to a domestic company (CGI Federal.) I've got a gut feeling that Brazil's email system will fare better than our Healthcare.gov site.

Article about SERPRO launching their cloud platform. http://www.zdnet.com/brazilian-government-launches-own-cloud...

Some random info about the Healthcare.gov devs: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/09/h...

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I don't know about your healthcare.gov, but it is very difficult to predict the success or failure of a government project around here (i am brazilian).

At one side we have incredibly well done and well managed examples, as our elections voting system. I get embarassed for US everytime I see the news about your elections, with cards and weird stuff.

On the other hand, we have lots of examples of how the government can mess things up, most notably these days are the stadiums and overall infrastructure for World Cup. It is even worse than any pessimist would have predicted.

So... all we can do is wait. The initiative, I think is good, but the outcome.. who knows?

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!

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 :)

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...

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