On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:04 AM, John Shaver <bobjohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Joshua Marsh <jos...@themarshians.com > >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 > What about www.tonido.com or http://owncloud.org/ for personal cloud? -jf /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
