DaddyDuck

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by DaddyDuck 13y ago
Hi ds9, you might be interested in visiting this link: cozy.io Disclaimer, I am from Cozy and wrote the article and the FAQ. You can self host Cozy on your own hardware or any hosting provider you trust. You are in no way tied to us. Keep i
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Demand change, transparency and accountability - Cozy as viable alternative(blog.cozycloud.cc)
57 points by DaddyDuck 13y ago|13 comments
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by DaddyDuck 13y ago
The First reason is because it gathers everything that concerns you in one place. You can have your browsing history, your geolocation history, your purchase receipt, your account statements... anything that concerns you and that you could
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by DaddyDuck 13y ago
It is an attempt to outline the current shift in attitude towards privacy from different perspectives. Governments want more transparency on usage of personal data and give users access to their personal data. Have you heard of Smart Diclos
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Let's conquer back our privacy to boost innovation and freedom(blog.cozycloud.cc)
17 points by DaddyDuck 13y ago|5 comments
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by DaddyDuck 13y ago
Or simply people who didn't have the skills to be a peer?! And what about closed gardens like social networks and services that wall our data behind proprietary walls? Google data liberation front is a step forward but its still not enough.
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by DaddyDuck 13y ago
While playing around with gmail, I found out that you can send from any smtp server emails to gmail pretending you are someone else's gmail account. There is no way of seeing from gmail that it isn't the trusted sender. The fake email is as
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by DaddyDuck 13y ago
Way to go! At Cozy cloud( https://www.cozycloud.cc/ ) we are developing an open source personal cloud platform that you can self-host and assign your own domain. Right now we already offer backup of your email address but we would like to o
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by DaddyDuck 14y ago
That's absolutely true! The one thing is today, it's not anymore big secure mainframes operated by corporate for corporate data; it's everyone's computing that is outsourced to third party companies. This is a totally new situation where
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by DaddyDuck 14y ago
That's a good feedback thank you! And good food for thought for a future article. This one was more intended as an informative endeavor in some cloud giant's nasty practices.
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by DaddyDuck 14y ago
Hello, this article is meant to highlight what makes cloud giants so powerful and why these are not so open ecosystems. The startup that publish this develop an open source personal cloud in Node.js. You can develop and install your own app
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Server side is where the power lies(blog.cozycloud.cc)
12 points by DaddyDuck 14y ago|9 comments