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1. I don’t understand why you conflate security with privacy. Or to be more precise, it depends on your threat model. A badly secured self hosting will make you
by pjerem 5y ago
1. I don’t understand why you conflate security with privacy. Or to be more precise, it depends on your threat model. A badly secured self hosting will make yourself vulnerable to targeted attacks over your privacy.
While it’s an issue you should consider, those attacks are pretty unlikely. However traditional cloud services will harvest every bit of what they get about you with a frightening efficiency but they’ll never automatically scan your server for vulnerabilities to read your mails.
- ziml77 5y agoSecurity is necessary to maintain privacy. If someone gains access to your systems, nothing you had on there is private anymore.
- louison11 5y agoI think there needs to be clarity about what is harvested and how. Most centralized services actually respect people’s privacy to the extent that they’re not asked to infringe it by law order. Most major tech cos have encryption at rest and highly regulated access checks. It’s also not clear that they actually do harvest every bit of data they can. They might for the purpose of better UX within the service, but Google ads doesn’t collaborate with gmail or Google photos for example. There are, however, botnets all around the world scanning the web for security flaws. This is why, in this sense, I argue that most people are actually better off using a safe, centralized service with encryption than try to reinvent the wheel at home and be more exposed.
- southerntofu 5y ago> Most centralized services actually respect people’s privacy to the extent that they’re not asked to infringe it by law order. cough cough