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Re: Own-Mailbox, the first 100% confidential mailbox

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Post by megapatch » Tue, Sep 08, 2015, 5:17 PM UTC

greenyoda wrote: post #2

Not sure why these people are spending so much money to develop their own hardware (40% of total cost) when this software (mail server, PGP) can be run on many cheap, off-the-shelf systems, like Raspberry Pi.

I guess Raspberry Pi would be actually more expensive than this. Also, I think not having to set up this tech stack myself alone is worth more than 30 Euro...

Re: Own-Mailbox, the first 100% confidential mailbox

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Post by megapatch » Tue, Sep 08, 2015, 5:22 PM UTC

This is exactly the kind of project we need these times. I hope this works out OK for these guys (I am backer #7). I hope it works out for us backers. Also I hope someone will later make a RaspberryPi image with almost the same functionality, ready to download and use (but, alas, you have to provide your own mail domain). Still, this is the right thinking. Email is the one protocol we easily can have at home, reasonably secure, with all the benefits and almost no negatives. My peers do not even need to know where the mails go!

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