Hello everyone! I’m quite new to the LemmyWorld and to the world of open-source computing in general. I recently started my journey into the field of computer science, and immediately felt compelled to join this massive movement against big tech, and against the corporate takeover of the internet.

I’m working on this homelab in order to get some practice. So far I’m only self-hosting a website, which as you can see, revolves around privacy and anonymity. The site is really new and I’m planning on adding more sections and features in future…

So far it offers:

e2e encrypted messaging webapp, which allows you to send encrypted messages to an email address, without using any account or identifier on your part.

point of sale for British SIM card. In Britain we can buy SIM cards without providing any ID or KYC. Shipped worldwide

Tools: in this section I plan to uploaded any piece of software related to anti/counter-surveillance that I will develop in the future, so far it hosts a timezone-sync toolthat synchronizes your system timezone with your VPN’s IP geolocation.

(It’s not a trap!). This page allows you to see all the code that composes the frontend of the website, including all .js files. Considering safe ways to publish the backend code too safely.

I am planning on adding two more pages, one for privacy and cybersecurity related news, and one for educational content.

My main problem is that I’m not getting any traffic so far, so I haven’t had the chance to test it properly, don’t even know if the current setup can handle multiple requests so I was hoping to get some traffic and feedback if the post gets approved.

Please let me know what you think about it and what there is to be fixed!

https://privacy-hut.com/

Some technicalities about the website:

There are no cookies or trackers, I don’t collect any telemetry data.

The server holds the ciphertext of the message only until the recipient opens it and reads it, it gets automatically deleted afterwards.

I don’t self host my own email server, I’m using an SMTP relay server, Brevo. This doesn’t break the 0-trust architecture because they simply only get the ciphertext, and recipient address just like myself, and I’ve set up the brevo profile to delete logs every day. The emails will appear as them have been sent by my server, not you. This choice has been made to ensure messages actually get delivered without ending up in spam folders.