I have my own email in my house which makes me immune to crap like this... ISP's can only see my email in transit because the drives are in my basement. I wonder if we can't produce a device that will give people control over their mail and take it out of the hands of google.
The device is about the size of a Netgear ReadyNAS (in fact maybe we just use the ReadyNAS for this... Its linux after all)... Just a couple of disks driven from a small low performing Linux controller. It runs a mail server (postfix + dovecot + IMAP + round cube), and any other services we need on it. One service we may need is a VPN service... Since most people don't have static IP's we'll need a way to direct traffic to them. So we'll give them a small VM in AWS and a VPN connection from their device. the VM can't store anything locally. Everything in their name and not ours.
We'll offer services for $50 or something where we help them set this all up or they can leverage our simple instructions and tools themselves. We'll even partner with godaddy to help them buy domains and get SSL certs for the mail server and web server from another cheap vendor.
Anyone willing to go in it with me?
