Can one run a server & still maintain personal privacy?

Re:Can one run a server & still maintain personal privacy? by trapexit on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @07:06PM (#5988069)

Set up a t1.micro instance on AWS and run a VPN server on it. The VPN instance accepts connections on port 25, etc. and forwards it over the VPN to your home server.

Your ISP sees nothing but encrypted traffic between you and your VPN server.

Alternately, buy a rackmount server and colo it. Authorities would need a warrant to seize it, just the same as they would to seize the server that's running in your basement.

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Re:Can one run a server & still maintain personal privacy? by plg on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @07:08PM (#5988085)

yeah I've thought about that, both ssh tunnelling to/from home from some hosted machine (e.g. AWS, or Linode, etc). The problem (from my point of view) is that the hosted machine is in someone else's "house". Even if it is a co-lo.... it is still sitting in someone else's house.

Thanks for the suggestion though. It gets part-way there

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