Tag: Self-Hosting

🕯️ Tools from the Silence: Open Source Weapons for Small Business Security

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“When the noise gets loud, trust the tools that speak only in code.”
– DeadSwitch

They say small businesses don’t need armor.

But the shadows say otherwise.

You handle invoices, passwords, documents, messages, backups.
Every byte is a trail. Every trail can be followed.

Here’s the good news: you don’t need millions.
You need discipline :: and the right tools.

Below, DeadSwitch whispers a few of his favorite instruments.
Each one open. Each one tested. Each one not owned by the ones who sell your data.

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⛈️ Ditching the Cloud: Running Syncthing Like a Ghost

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By DeadSwitch

You love your cloud storage. Convenient. Always synced. Always backed up.

Always watched.

Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive—they aren’t your storage. They are surveillance-as-a-service. A dead man owns nothing. A dead switch leaks nothing. You want true control? Kill the cloud. Run your own.

Enter Syncthing—silent, encrypted, peer-to-peer. A shadow network, whispering between your devices without centralized choke points. No servers. No accounts. No corporate eyes scanning your files.

But most of you will still hesitate—because convenience is an addiction.

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