Ask HN: How would you guard your data privacy?

7 points by read 13y ago ↗ HN

I would like to hear what other HNers might be thiking of doing about keeping their data private. Feel free to be creative in your responses.

I no longer trust my data being stored in cloud services or data centers. I briefly considered storing them outside the US, but then I don't know who to trust there. I'm considering hosting them on my own servers, in my home, or in a trusted friends home. I'm also considering them being stored on my personal phone encrypted. I definitely want my email to be encrypted.

This has to be a problem on a lot of people's mind right now. Practically, what could one do?

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eightyone 13y ago ↗

I deleted both my iCloud and Dropbox account for starters. I'm currently looking into hosting, specifically PRQ (Hosted Piratebay and Wikileaks for sometime)[1] and Bahnhof (The datacenter that is in a mountain. They hosted Wikileaks for sometime, as well.) [2]

[1] http://prq.se [2] http://www.bahnhof.net

I read somewhere that you can find several VPN services that are based out of the same location of Bahnhof. I don't have much information on it, though.

In terms of email, obviously PGP.

I haven't decided yet if I'm switching from Mac OS X to some form of Linux. I was going to buy a new MacBook, but I'm really on the fence now.