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Ask Slashdot: Building a Personal FOSS Cloud?

Posted by timothy on from the and-you-will-always-have-shade dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Cloud-based personal data management is pretty cool... if you don't mind entrusting the entirety of your personal data to a gigantic corporation. Apart from the risks of their doing unseemly things with your data, also the security of your data is entirely in their unreliable hands. So, is it possible to build my own personal data repository, where for example, I can store my contacts and calendars to sync to multiple devices? This could be hosted on any third party hosting service assuming also that all of my data was encrypted at the data level. So even if the host wanted to look at my data, all they'd see is 1s and 0s. What are the options for the tinfoil hat wearing FOSS folks that want to participate in the cloud age?"

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  1. Re:Thanks for sharing by masternerdguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, that's like saying that if I open a book all I'll see are characters.

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  2. For Christ's Sake, Just Get A Big USB Drive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can write "The Cloud" on it with a Sharpie if you absolutely must.

    1. Re:For Christ's Sake, Just Get A Big USB Drive by petsounds · · Score: 4, Funny

      The difference is, if there's a fire in the house, your cloud will go up in smoke.

      Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.

  3. Re:Africa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    So do you propose a free cloud solution for starving kids in Africa? The food thingy might be a bit difficult to accomplish but if they can store their music safely at least the on line world is doing their bit to change the world.

  4. Re:Thanks for sharing by jxander · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unsure if troll, or honest effort to top the dumbest thing heard all day.

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  5. Re:don't trust others... by SpaghettiPattern · · Score: 4, Funny

    the safest storage is your own high speed server quality RAID 7 write-only drive

    There's a readily available device for this that emulates a RAID 7 write-only drive but with better performance. It's called /dev/null.

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  6. Re:don't trust others... by hawkinspeter · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, but does it do dedup?

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