On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:04 AM, John Shaver <bobjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
Since the very nature of email is not point to point, it is by nature sniffable. No matter where you host it yourself in your own house on encrypted drives. The NSA could theoretically capture it before it ever reaches your system. The only real measure you can take is to encrypt the individual emails with something like S/MIME or PGP. This however requires that both sender and receiver have capable clients and are somewhat prepared to do so. Now the "personal cloud" Windley was talking about was not really just about self hosting stuff. The idea was more about centralizing your data in one location, and let you decide what services you allow to access parts of that data. This personal cloud could simply be hosted by a provider such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc. But the infrastructure wouldn't prevent you from hosting it at any other third party, or even yourself from your own home. The most important point was not the where, but the idea of putting your data in a single location that you control. I think it's a wonderful idea. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
