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Don't most ISPs ban residential accounts from running something like this? Comcast terms: > use or run dedicated, stand-alone equipment or servers from the Premises that provide network content or any other services to anyone outside of your Premises local area network (“Premises LAN”), also commonly referred to as public services or servers. Examples of prohibited equipment and servers include, but are not limited t…
How hackable is this I wonder? Would just be cool to have a machine this shape. Of course you could probably do the same with a raspberry pi and a 3D printer.
Alex - Giri Sreenivas, co-founder of Helm here. We've designed security from the silicon up to make this device very difficult to hack. That means implementing secure boot, full disk encryption and utilizing a Secure Enclave for managing keys on the device. And yes, you could definitely do this on a raspberry pi. That's what we used to prototype. It's not great for a long last, durable and secure platform though.
If that's not what you mean, what does "from the silicon up" mean?
How hackable is this I wonder? Would just be cool to have a machine this shape. Of course you could probably do the same with a raspberry pi and a 3D printer.
Alex - Giri Sreenivas, co-founder of Helm here. We've designed security from the silicon up to make this device very difficult to hack. That means implementing secure boot, full disk encryption and utilizing a Secure Enclave for managing keys on the device. And yes, you could definitely do this on a raspberry pi. That's what we used to prototype. It's not great for a long last, durable and secure platform though.
- You run the risk of hardware failure, which would take days to recover. When your warranty expires, it'd cost you, too.
- Disk failure may lose all your data.
- Fire, theft, or hurricanes may destroy it.
- You still give access to your data to a company, which controls software updates and the EC2 proxy (in this case).
- Many home ISPs have shitty upload connectivity, so your email won't work that well on the go.
- Internet and power outages mean you won't send or receive any email.
- You lose the knowledge email providers get from scale, including ever-evolving spam filters, and a guaranteed clean outgoing IP.
If you really want to control your data, just spin up something like ownCloud (not sure if that's the best solution, just an example). Companies like DigitalOcean make it as simple as point and click.
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Hey there, I'm Giri Sreenivas, co-founder of Helm. Glad you like the hardware! Good question on email bounces. As Arubis mentioned, email has retry built in and most servers default to retrying for 48-72 hours.
This answer implies that you have no idea what the problem is, which doesn't bode well. The problem is that the major email hosts send to the spam folder any emails from IP addresses they don't explicitly trust. My solution to this is just to ignore it and tell people if they want to receive my email they should work out how, as the problem is on their end not mine. But lots of your customers won't like that answer.
> Do you know where your email is?
You show, Google, NSA, etc... but doesn't this service route email through your own servers to get to the box in my home? what makes your servers more secure than Google's at handling the emails? If I have to trust you to route the emails, I might as well just use something like Fastmail that hosts them too.
More crucially, what can I do with the box if I ever stop paying you? or you go under, etc.
One of the worst ideas. Every big email provider (gmail, yahoo, outlook ...) do block every mail sent from a home isp. so you will not be able to send anyone a mail.
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hey jawns, great question. I'm Giri Sreenivas, co-founder and CEO of Helm. To answer your question, ISPs block port 25 and email service providers typically reject emails coming from residential IP blocks. To build a plug and play solution, we knew that our server could not require listening for inbound connections on a residential internet connection. So we set about looking into how we could route traffic to and fr…
Thank you for this very informative reply. (I hope you'll put this information in a more prominent place on your site.)
One of the worst ideas. Every big email provider (gmail, yahoo, outlook ...) do block every mail sent from a home isp. so you will not be able to send anyone a mail.