Your Data Fortress (A Debian Server)

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:49:03 -0600

Ask yourself this - where is your data? Who owns it? Who uses it? If you’ve lived a typical digital life for the past few decades, your personal information is scattered everywhere. The majority is concentrated in the hands of a small set of megacorporations - Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, Palantir, and Microsoft - all riddled with backdoors and spyware to ensure compliance and pro-social usage.

Thought crime charges are now an unfortunate reality, and can even be applied retroactively even decades later. Even if you are operating far within the boundaries set by law, your thoughts are your own, and ought not to be spied on or acted upon.

While the government storing and abusing your data is unavoidable, (not to mention sharing it with moral busybodies, consultants, and Palantir,) control can be wrenched back into your own hands. Run a home server, learn GNU/Linux, and regain your privacy and data autonomy today!

You’ll just need one or more of these cheerful little boxes:

Guide on Ryan Fleck

Your Data Fortress (A Debian Server)