Fellow selfhoster, do you encrypt your drives where you put data to avoid privacy problems in case of theft? If yes, how? How much does that impact performances? I selfhost (amongst other services) NextCloud where I keep my pictures, medical staff, …in short, private stuff and I know that it’s pretty difficult that a thief would steal my server, buuut, you never know! 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Nope. This isn’t part of my threat model.

    I don’t have sensitive data and stealing a drive would be inconvenient for a thief.

    • Jediwan@lemy.lol
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      8 months ago

      You don’t have sensitive data? Would you mind expanding on that a bit for me? Just curious how you like, live, and stuff.

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        8 months ago

        Plex data, pi hole, and home assistant don’t contain anything meaningful. No credentials are stored in a form that can be reused.

        The most sensitive is immich, which I’m more concerned about backups than I am someone might steal my nudes. Their online anyway.

        Email is hosted off-site and I still have physical files for a lot of my documents. If someone stole hdds out of my server, they’d get a lot of Linux isos, pictures of cars, porn, tons of versioned software and games installers, etc.

        Maybe my definition of sensitive is different than yours though.

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        8 months ago

        I’m surprized as well, like I guess I would understand if it’s a no log DNS server but, what else wouldn’t have sensitive information.

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          8 months ago

          My Music, Movies and Shows, I dont consider them private/sensitive, as they aren’t illegal to possess or even download in my country. I would even donate my filled but corrupted drive to a repair guy, he can have the media if he can repair it.