U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users * TorrentFreak

ChallengeApathy, 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

It’s actually rather stunning to see just how hard they’re attacking privacy in these final months of the disastrous dumpster fire that is the Biden administration. This is exactly why I believe centralized cloud and CDN infrastructure is massively dangerous.

Make the web decentralized again.

Glass0448, 18 days ago

I haven’t heard the alternative candidates talk about how they’ll fight for our privacy.

ChallengeApathy, 18 days ago

I didn’t mention the others. It’s simply that this current “administration” has been a disaster in literally every way so it’s not surprising they’re trying to end our constitutional rights.

Dkarma, 18 days ago

Could be worse.

We could have trump

citizensv, 20 days ago

Liberty = 0

DevCat, 20 days ago

Let’s see. Email - Iceland Web host - Iceland VPN - Sweden Backup - Norway

Did I miss anything?

Coasting0942, 18 days ago

They are pricier and they know it.

wagoner, 20 days ago

Lag?

drwho, 20 days ago

Hot on the heels of piracy spiking when streaming media libraries were being pared down. This reads like a shot against seedboxes.

haui_lemmy, 20 days ago

Every time I read news like this I‘m glad I moved to my own cloud.

golden_zealot, 20 days ago

How did you do it, what are you using and how do you have it configured? Also interested in the costs.

haui_lemmy, 20 days ago

Check out my setup if you want.

Costs depend on a lot of factors. If you are technically adept you might be able to get away with 20 bucks a month for the whole setup but most folks wouldn’t imo. I also have some old hardware I was able to use and upgraded it. Initial invest for a homeserver varies greatly depending on who you know.

If you want to know more please ask. You can also hit me up on matrix. Link in bio.

golden_zealot, 20 days ago

Swell, thank you.

archer, 17 days ago

I did a similar setup for my own cloud on several Raspberry Pis (one master and two backup devices). The backups are placed offsite and sync the entire content of the master device. The next step I want to try now is running a Proxmox cluster (on x86) that now only syncs contents but also provides identical copies in a high availability setup (like a “real” cloud would).

haui_lemmy, 16 days ago

Thats actually not a bad idea. Long term selfhosted cloud solutions will have to compete on availability/redundancy. You might want to help the NC folks to implement that on their docker setup or something?

ShellMonkey, 20 days ago

That’ll only ever pass of the big cloud vendors allow it. No way that Azure/AWS/Google wouldn’t object if a sizable portion of their user base get upset and threaten to leave. How much of that user base argues is unknown though.

possiblylinux127, 20 days ago

The money makers for large clouds are companies. They won’t care about this legislation

ShellMonkey, 20 days ago

Generally yes, it would matter a lot how it was structured. Today you couldn’t call up AWS and ask for the details on a service owner out of privacy reasons and there are ways to register things by proxy. If they started stripping those kind of protections away though there’s bound to be some pushback.