Re: data security in "the cloud"

It's taken me nearly two years but I'm finally starting to make some
progress with personal servers. The new vision is for a VPS hosted in
"the cloud" rather than as hardware that the user runs from their home.
So far I have a very humble website, www.personalserver.com and a very
new Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/PersonalServer -- I'll be
sure to keep you updated when I'm pimping more than vapourware. :P

On 2011-11-05 06:27, John Smith wrote:
> That's a neat idea John, I assume each user could protect his/her data on
> their personal server via firewalls, VPN configurations, user
> account, encrypted passwords etc... right? Did you ever do anything with
> the idea? For the 1TB of storage, would that be accessable memory or
> harddrive space? I don't think we have the OS for accessing 1TB of
> addressable memory yet, but that would definately be cool.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 5:08 AM, John Elliot <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> **
>>
>>
>> On 31/10/2011 8:12 AM, John Smith wrote:
>>> "p.s. Everyone knows the point of "cloud computing" is to make it easy
>>> for the CIA to get a copy of your data. Don't be silly."
>>>
>>> BINGO!! That is one of the reasons why there are restrictions on the
>>> export of data encryption software. The government gets real nervous if a
>>> company wants to export its encryption/decryption software to certain
>>> countries.
>>
>> I thought they got over that and relaxed their restrictions..? I was
>> always a little disappointed about that law, I kinda expected more of
>> the USA.
>>
>> A few years ago I started a company with a view to creating a "personal
>> server". I was going to call it the Blackbrick Homepage Server, and
>> essentially it would be a little box about the size of your broadband
>> router with 1 TB of storage that you kept in your home. It would be a
>> web server and an email server, and would allow you to do all your
>> personal information management. So your email and your address book
>> would be on there, you'd have a wiki (or two), a blog, a news
>> aggregator, web mail, and a few reporting and management bits and
>> pieces. Basically it would be a "cloud" service (i.e. always available
>> on the network regardless of where you are), but it would be hosted from
>> your broadband connection and secured with your other valuables in your
>> home. It's a great idea, and could very well be "the next big thing". It
>> could obsolete facebook and gmail. Anyway, then life kinda got in the
>> way, and I haven't really had the time to develop the product, although
>> if I kept at it I might have something saleable in a few years. Anyway,
>> I hope that's what the future looks like.
>>
>>
>>
> 


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