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Eggcyte is Making a Pocket-Sized Personal Web Server (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the my-data-belongs-to-me-and-no-one-else dept.

Eggcyte has been working on this for two years. It's on Kickstarter now; a personal server you can use to share music, video, text, and just about anything else without resorting to cloud-based services where one weak password can put your private celebrity photos (you are a celebrity, right?) into the wrong hands. If you suddenly decide you don't want to share the information on your Egg any more, turn it off. If you suddenly have something new to share, like a video you just shot of the Loch Ness Monster capturing an alien spaceship, you can connect your Egg to the Internet anywhere you find a wireless access point. The main thing, say the Eggcyte people, is that your data is yours and should stay that way. Facebook and other cloud-based "sharing" companies use your data to learn about you. Here in the U.S. their primary purpose may be to show you ads for things you might want to buy. In more repressive countries, cloud-based sharing services may use your private data in ways that could be hazardous to your health. Of course, our government people would never keep track of what we post on Twitter and other online services... or would they? (Alternate Video Link)

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  1. Re:Web Server? by davydagger · · Score: 3, Interesting

    very loosely enforced, I've been running home servers for over a decade.

  2. Re:200 dollars is too expensive by RoverDaddy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you'll read my other comment you'll see that I basically agree with your assessment. However, for a consumer product, this amount of markup is probably reasonable. You'll never get a raspberry pi, wifi adapter, bluetooth adapter, battery and video screen to fit into that form factor. That's where engineering design and packaging, and custom circuit design come into play. And the software has a price too. Even if you or I could cobble up the basics of this product on our own, it still might be useful for the average consumer.

    All that said, I do wonder whether the market can bear a $200 price for this device.

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  3. Encryption? by TubeSteak · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The Kickstarter page makes no mention of encryption between my device and the Egg.
    Nor anything about encrypted storage on the device itself.

    If your selling point is personal security, you should really be mentioning how your device is meaningfully secure.

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