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?"

Comments

Africa

[Anonymous Coward]

Who cares about a fucking FOSS cloud. Children are starving in Africa and you give a shit about a fucking FOSS cloud? Fuck you. Instead of shooting electron beams at a FOSS cloud to see what happens these scientists should be in the wheat fields growing food for starving children in 3rd world countries. First world fuckers like yourself are decadent faggots who care more about a FOSS cloud than humans. Those same starving children probably mined the FOSS cloud for you so you could play with it in your lab. Fuckers.

Re:Found it when googling for dropbox alternatives

[datavirtue]

Just freakin use Google for shit's sake. This crap is really going too far. On /. people act like Google is up their ass, when in fact they keep little relevant personal data. Besides, who gives a rat's ass what data they have. They only have what you give them!