On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 10:04:39 AM John Shaver wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Joshua Marsh <[email protected]>wrote: > > about all this, it reminded me of Phil Whindley's Key note at > > > > OWC. His talk wasn't primarily about security, but more along the lines of > > the need to have your own personal cloud. I love the idea of owning your > > own data, storing it in a place that you alone control, and using your own > > safe guards. Then if the government wanted it, I'd be the person they were > > asking. > > I have thought of this on many occasions and how it would be best to go > about this. In particular, host my own email and DNS seems a good place to > start. However how can you truly self host this? > > Typically you would need to host this with a hosting services of some > kind. If you host it from your home internet connection, you're still > using an ISP that can be subpenaed for information. > > If you are hosting with hosting service, you can encrypt your drives and > data, but you would need to avoid virtualization, as memory and other data > processing can be monitored by the hosting environment. > > I'm wondering if any others have put much thought into this, or implemented > their own? I don't really have a question, it just seems like an > interesting topic for discussion. :) > > -John >
I'm thinking initially we need to find a country that is nuetral and does not require ISPs to turn over information. I actually looked into this about a year ago and I wanted to put a server in Switzerland. A man at my church is from Switzerland and was going to put me in contact with his brothers, who still live there, so I could ship a computer to them to put in their house. I dropped the ball and never got around to it... boy I could be seriously ahead of the game here if I hadn't!!! Nathan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
