''Private-Cloud''
Why secure data
and how?
Who is the villain?
Your dorm mate?
A housebreaker?
A nefarious government agency?
Your dorm mate because...
... you can hardly check if he took a look.
The housebreaker because...
... he would steal the whole thing.
The nefarious government agency because...
... well, wait...
Reasonable precaution
#1: Encrypt (most of) your data.
#2: Encrypt and decrypt on the
client (if possible.)
client (if possible.)
... Via a web frontend
Or via A terminal
with sshfs and encfs
sshfs my-server.pagekite.me:~/ ↩ <-- connect to the remote folder
~/Remote-Filesystem <-- mount the remote folder
-- = make it locally available
encfs ~/Remote-Filesystem/data.enc ↩ <-- select the encrypted container
~/Decrypted-Data/ <-- make the on-the-fly decrypted
-- data available