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and who can subpoena your private communications. Hate to break it to you, but that same subpoena can just as easily allow your house, office, or datacenter to
by maukdaddy 16y ago
and who can subpoena your private communications.
Hate to break it to you, but that same subpoena can just as easily allow your house, office, or datacenter to be raided. Your data is just as susceptible to lawful intercept at Google as it is your private premises.
- mike-cardwell 16y agoWhen self hosting, you can make sure that deleted email has actually been deleted. You have control over how long logs are kept. You have control over whether or not to use encrypted filesystems.
- lambda 16y agoIt is much easier for one over-broad subpoena or search warrant to reveal your private data if it's hosted on Google than if it's hosted on your own server. If everyone keeps their own data on their own machines, then they would need to subpoena or get a search warrant for each individual person, rather than a broad one attempting to fish for information. Furthermore, you can fight a subpoena. Do you trust Google to fight a subpoena on your behalf? How would they even know whether or not they should; how would they be able to tell if the subpoena is reasonable or not?