Ask Slashdot: Building a Personal FOSS Cloud?

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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We're working on it

[wurp]

https://github.com/wurp/Friendly-Backup

It works now, with some bugs. The first targeted usecase is distributed backup.

However, it can store arbitrary read-only content-addressed data as well as signed labels that point point to a particular piece of CBA data to emulate mutable data.

I have a whole slew of plans beyond backup for it, but backup seemed like the thing everyone needs and would most like to have for free on a federated data store.

Re:Found it when googling for dropbox alternatives

[Anonymous Coward]

The actual ownCloud application that you setup on your server doesn't have a reference to googleapis. I just checked on my installation.

For those wondering, the project website links to the jQuery library hosted on Google's server so they don't have to host it themselves.

Re:cloud vs server

[AuMatar]

Servers are web 1.0. Cloud is web 3.0. Much buzzier and hipper.