{"id":793,"date":"2016-06-07T19:59:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T01:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michel2010.name\/blog\/?p=793"},"modified":"2016-06-07T19:59:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T01:59:48","slug":"digital-privacy-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/2016\/06\/07\/digital-privacy-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Privacy (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I finally have my own email server. \u00a0It hasn&#8217;t happened quite the way I was expecting, but in the end I believe this will be better. \u00a0I am paying for a VPS (Virtual Private Server) from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalocean.com\">DigitalOcean<\/a>\u00a0(A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/m.do.co\/c\/5fec9b28de43\">referral link<\/a>, you get a $10 credit if you use it). \u00a0I&#8217;m using their smallest server. \u00a0I found a great setup called <a href=\"http:\/\/mailinabox.email\">mail-in-a-box<\/a>\u00a0and installed it. \u00a0The hardest part for me was getting the DNS figured out, and then waiting for it to propagate. \u00a0It also includes built in support for <a href=\"https:\/\/letsencrypt.org\">Lets Encrypt<\/a>\u00a0so it is very easy to get SSL certificates setup. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been very impressed. \u00a0I started with my least used email\/domain and once I have the kinks worked out I&#8217;ll move over my michel2010.name email\/domain. \u00a0If that also goes well I will slowly transition to using a michel2010.name email address instead of my gmail address.<\/p>\n<p>My email is still on a\u00a0server not physically controlled by me, but DigitalOcean is \u00a0not (at least according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalocean.com\/legal\/privacy\/\">their privacy policy<\/a>) going through it unless required to by the government. \u00a0This means if I am still paranoid about my emails being read I will need to encrypt them. \u00a0From what I understand it is best to encrypt the emails on the client side as apposed to the server, that way the encryption\/decryption keys are not stored on the server.<\/p>\n<p>Some quick follow up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michel2010.name\/blog\/2015\/10\/11\/digital-privacy-part-1\/\">my last privacy post<\/a>: I am still using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duckduckgo.com\">duckduckgo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startpage.com\">startpage<\/a> and really haven&#8217;t missed Google all that much. \u00a0I also am no longer on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to give one more shout out to the <a href=\"https:\/\/mailinabox.email\">mail-in-a-box guys<\/a>. \u00a0It really makes the whole setup of an email server almost painless. \u00a0If you are even remotely interested in running your own email server it is well worth a look.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I finally have my own email server. \u00a0It hasn&#8217;t happened quite the way I was expecting, but in the end I believe this will be better. \u00a0I am paying for a VPS (Virtual Private Server) from DigitalOcean\u00a0(A\u00a0referral link, you get a $10 credit if you use it). \u00a0I&#8217;m using their smallest server. \u00a0I found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/2016\/06\/07\/digital-privacy-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Digital Privacy (Part 2)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}