Ask Slashdot: Keeping My Data Mine? (2015 Edition)

New submitter schklerg writes: Like many, I am tired of being the product of the corporate "cloud" overlords. To that end, I've got my own Linux server running Tiny Tiny RSS (RSS — Feedly replacement), OwnCloud (Storage / phone backup / Keepass sync / notes — Google Drive replacement), Coppermine Gallery (picture library), Dokuwiki (quick reference), and Shaarli (bookmarks manager — Foxmarks / Sync replacement). Crashplan lets me pick the keys for my backups, and the only thing Google Drive ever sees is a pgp encrypted file of various items. Next up is moving from gmail with iRedMail. Yes, the NSA may have it all anyway, but being under less corporate control is a nice feeling. What have you done to maintain control of your own data?

Comments

2015 Edition?

[SeaFox]

That's pretty optimistic. I'm sure we'll have a duplicate discussion about this before the end of the year.

Re:Well duh

[Anonymous Coward]

I put the stuff on my hard drive.

But you're still at the mercy of "teh Corporationz" who made the hard drive!
REAL Men don't use teh EVIL Korporate Overlord hardware, we manually encode the bits on pieces of bark, which comes from trees hand-planted from Heritage seedstock, watered from sekret underground aquifers, and fertilized with our own shit. Backdoor THAT at the factory, China/NSA/GCHQ/KGB, haHA!!!

Re: Nothing!

[mnemotronic]

I don't do anything either. the Chinese govt has all my info including SSN, driver's lic #, passport #, fingerprint info, job & residence history, plus criminal, drug and alcohol history. And rehab history. And relapse history. And re-rehab history. And ... you get the picture. Disk space will be a challenge.