 Get your data back under control 200 things you can do with Nexar this there we go All right welcome everyone So let's start a little bit with me because you know So at least you know who's standing here in front of you. My name is your sport fleet I come well my dad was born on this farm. It's in the southwest of the Netherlands. It's on an island It's all very rural and well, maybe a little bit backwards. Don't tell anyone I said that I Didn't grow up here, but I come from a family of farmers and well my dad is not he became a salesman later on I Did I studied psychology? I did some lean Six sigma business consulting stuff, but luckily I recovered I became community manager for open Suzer That was fun Then I became community manager at own clouds and now I joined the engineers when they left and started Nexlout and I well was the most Communicative person I suppose so I became marketing and that's still what I am today I live in Berlin where I bike if I get the chance to I only do that with good weather because I'm a good weather biker and Only to get from A to B. I don't think biking is a sport. It's just a practical thing again I'm Dutch. I find this whole sports biking Well, not my thing and I enjoy that a company of my wife and dog my wife would have been here sadly She's very sick so she couldn't come and well very sad for me So what is the subject of this presentation as I said 200 awesome things you can do with Nexlout? I'll first talk a little bit about the good of the cloud the bad of the clouds privacy in general and Also the point of I have nothing to hide which is a common Point that comes up when you're talking about privacy I will then talk about Nexlout and then we get to the 200 things Don't worry the first part will be 10-15 minutes and I will focus on the last part If you have questions, please just interrupt me just say so it's no problem at all and Yeah, I have 30 minutes. I believe so I'll try to stick to that I'm not sure if I get to the end of it this presentation was a little longer. It's okay so Let's start with the awesomeness of the cloud and I don't think I really need to tell anyone all the good stuff We get from the clouds I was recently traveling to the US and about a week in advance Google Maps told me that hey, I can download the map of the area of Los Angeles for you so that you have offline routing capabilities now that's Yes, you can say it's maybe a little scary But it's also really what I need it because I don't have internet there and to be able to offline route where you're going to it's awesome And this is something the cloud does right if you lose your phone if you have an Android phone or an iPhone The only thing you do is you buy a new phone you log in Your contacts your apps everything gets restored. It just takes a little time. You lose nothing almost nothing And you can work with people all over the world. You can have video calls while you're editing a document I mean this this is genuinely increasing productivity in a pretty epic scale And it's also connecting us to everyone. I mean Facebook says it wants to connect everyone that doesn't always lead to awesome results But often it does it's just great Maybe you're not that interested in the cat pictures, but it's still nice to know where you know Ex-classmates are today who got married to who etc. We're humans We like to connect and the cloud is that's one of the things that lets us do I Mean these great services that have been built by the big boys This is ex-guess of the picture that kind of depicts the different companies but they have built a bunch of really amazing services that do all the things I just Mentioned and again, they're not always entirely accurate. I was recently Listening music and there was a switch between a death metal band to Simon and Garfranco I thought well if any human had to pick that they probably would have picked another order, but They're generally speaking do pretty okay So we have all these abilities and we enjoy them every day, and it's all free well kind of or really extremely cheap and Aside from the occasional creepiness also the fact that it's free should give us pause and most of us have by now figured out that there's an issue with that and That this isn't exactly free which gets us of course to the less awesome Property of the clouds. I mean why why is it free? Well, ask yourself these questions. Where is my data who has access and what is it used for? Again, I don't think for many people here. It's a surprise that the answers to this aren't entirely Satisfactory and really great and and in some cases just down not scary for our society So the question where is it? Well, it's it's in the cloud. It's in this amorphous Set of services somewhere out there that is managed by some big American companies The comics are from X Cassidy.com if you don't know them, then you're missing something in your life In my opinion, it's worth checking it out XKCD.com so our data is here and and these guys well the guys on the right have access to it the guys on the Left are hosting it. That's kind of what it boils down to so What what what is the issue with that? well Largely speaking the guys on the right are supposed to keep us safe Sadly, they kind of there's some disagreement between all of them about what is safe and for whom but let's table that for a second and let's talk about the guys on the left first what they do so three two years ago Dropbox started to already three years ago dropbox started to delete copyrighted content Well, how do they know that you uploaded a video there? Well, they take a hash of files and then they check all your files against a list of evil hashes because those are copyright content And they delete it Of course then after a while they had to be a little clever because you would just change the metadata of a file The hash would be different and then they had to actually start to look at the files Analyze them at least a little bit to see if copyrighted content and of course list of hashes gets bigger and bigger What's the problem with that? I don't know it's a little annoying But as long as it's just used for law enforcement, then well, it simply depends whether you like the law enforcement in your country Which I'm reasonably okay with here in Europe if you're in China. It's kind of shitty maybe for some people Okay, so last year Google went I think a little bit further. They started deleting porn Now you say okay Well, you can have your problems with porn and and and there are certainly a lot of places in the world That have pretty serious issues with porn But the thing is this was actually a business issue because there are were and are independent porn actors who make custom content for customers and Sell that and then that customer gets a link and can download the content Except that Google was using pretty clever probably machine learning ish algorithms to detect porn and therefore just deleting this Private property that was getting sold to those customers Which I think is really I mean come on. This is business You might not like it, but it's none of their business to interfere with that. I had a problem with that I think that's really not fair. And I mean, let's go a little bit further last May first Microsoft changed their rules around all their services including Skype to ban offensive language. I Don't know how they intend to enforce this but it's quite possible that at some point They're gonna use an AI that listens in on all your conversations and bleeps out any nasty words you say I Don't know about you guys. I think it's none of their freaking business right and This is all just annoying and none of their business But they're building an infrastructure that can of course be used by people who don't care about offensive language or porn But care about political opinions. They don't like and the infrastructure is being built They're they're making all of the pieces you need for that and that's of course a bit of a problem if you want to have a happy free society so Privacy is important and as I said, there's a free society that we care about I'm gonna go a little faster here But privacy is important beyond just like we have democracy and in the book democracy needs privacy. I mean first of the problems is You might think, you know, you don't have anything to hide but reality is you have a lot to hide There's a huge amounts of laws that you are not aware of that is rarely used but could be used against you I mean, I have a bunch of you as examples sadly that aren't super relevant here But there is a law in Washington that you're not allowed to be smelly in public Now, obviously, it's not that you know They have dogs sniffing around and checking whether somebody used too much the other end or too little What laws like this and there are many similar ones in other countries, too By the way, the laws like this are being used by the police kind of at their discretion What happens is you have a group of young people making noise on a Saturday night here in in Brussels You know and the police wants to remove them because it got several complaints from people. What do they do? They just look at a random little law like say don't litter or don't you know cross the street wrong And they just use that to get them to move and that's fine It's quite okay that that happens But now imagine that this surveillance state that I just described is checking everything you ever do and You're an annoying local activist who wants to stop, you know The local government from bulldozing a park that you like a lot Well, if they want to stop you they can use one of these random laws Just look in your history on your browser on your phone or anywhere else if they would have access to it And they can stop you from doing it And this is a danger for democracy simply because if you put all these complicated little laws together with the fact that if we really want we can know everything of you Become super easy for a repressive regime to abuse And I mean there is a wish to abuse this or at least a pressure to do it pretty much everywhere So there's an issue with that and besides I mean even if you say look, you know We've removed all these useless laws and we only block people from doing things that are legitimately Illegal I can tell you a few things that were legitimately illegal. You know, this wasn't illegal at the time now Slavery and yes the concentration camps in Germany were legal according to the local laws of the country These are criminals The ones on the left are the founding fathers and you know what Gandhi did was illegal I mean the people who are fighting slavery, they were the ones breaking the law if we have perfect law enforcement We are actually in deep shit because if you want to improve society often you have to break the law I mean, I mean think about the environmental movement. I mean yes eco terrorists. It's not always good I don't support all of that But if it wouldn't happen at all if it was impossible because we have perfect law enforcement that will immediately see it and act Then it would completely stop and I think we wouldn't make a lot of progress in a lot of areas And I think about all kinds of rights from gay rights Discrimination there are a lot of examples here if we want to move forward as society we can't have perfect law enforcement you need a degree of civil disobedience that should be possible and China is one of the places where they're trying to get perfect law enforcement But in Europe we would love that too. I'm sure most politicians love to be tough on crime. Well, some crime isn't bad, you know, and As I said earlier, I'm a psychologist and one of the things that I tend to think about is of course in this area So let me ask here straight up. How many of you have visited psychiatrist? So I see only one hand and I'm pretty by the way, she does put my hand in the air I'm pretty sure that there are quite a few more than one person here You don't like to talk about a certainly not in a group of people that you don't know at all So why is that? It's because we like to portray a certain image of ourselves to other people and that's why your Facebook stream is not exactly an accurate representation of who you are And you put pictures on there from a good party you had not really of the morning after because that's just not nice Why you want to create a certain image of yourself you do this all day long your first date You're not gonna tell the bad stuff. You only tell the good stuff Right. This is normal. This is healthy But if you did this only works because of privacy if I could look up from each of you who went to a psychiatrist You probably wouldn't want to go to psychiatrist anymore because then people will be able to know that you'll change your behavior If you don't have privacy That's a problem now if we want to build a healthy normal society We need privacy it changes you as a human being and how you act even if it's not about being illegal There's nothing wrong going to a psychiatrist But still you would probably try not to do it, which wouldn't be good for the health care and mental health in our society Yeah, just a little example, but I think it's relevant and the point that you also shouldn't forget behind all of this is that privacy for all of us Could be eradicated relatively simple by government The criminals will still have privacy I mean after all they have something to hide and they usually have money and therefore resources and they don't care about the law So if you make Encrypted chat illegal you guys stop using it, but the criminals will still use encrypted chat. It's not gonna stop them Right. I mean drug lords will still send encrypted messages Terrorists will still use encrypted messages. I mean all these attempts were politicians To decrease our privacy to increase surveillance to remove encryption It has nothing to do with terrorism because it doesn't stop terrorists They use encrypted applications even if you make it illegal. They're not going to use encrypted apps with a backdoor They have something to hide you are going to use encrypted apps with a backdoor. They want So there's another problem here. I mean none of this will actually make us safe Yeah, right. So now what? Well, we need a solution for this that is decentralized Yeah, all right, so it's gonna be my privacy today guys I'll get to the answer. However, not much deep into it. So sorry for that So we need a decentralized solution that doesn't put only power only control in a single place because that is a big part of the problem right now. Yeah, if you are a criminal or a government or you know someone who wants to to Control people and control data right now There are six companies where you need to knock on the door and these six companies operate globally Now we all know that the US government can force companies in the US like Microsoft To hand over data of you people in another country and other jurisdiction that is in that other country and other jurisdiction Handed over to US law enforcement We know that because there has been a lawsuit about it and Microsoft lost it. Actually, they stopped it Yeah, there was data in Ireland from European people and New York judge force Microsoft to hand it over to law force and then it happens. So this this is a done deal But you know Microsoft is also active in China and I mean they have to follow Chinese law too So if the Chinese says we want access to the date of Americans, you really think Microsoft doesn't give it Well, they're still active in China. So clearly they do Let's be honest. Otherwise, they wouldn't be active in China anymore because that's how it works And this is true for any of these companies now you can say I trust my government I trust the Americans trust maybe even the Chinese, but I'm sure there is some country in the world You don't trust okay. There are plenty of them. So yeah, that's that's not good. So we need Decentralized solution period you need to be able to host it yourself run under your own infrastructure And we're to the subject of this room, of course keep your stuff on your own infrastructure Doesn't have to be every single person. It needs to be at least in your country Yeah, if you're a German find a German provider or maybe just the European one So at least the Chinese or the Russians or whoever the Ugandese Whoever you're afraid of can't get at it. And it's not just government It's always once the government gets at it and so can criminal organizations in that country if only by just forcing politicians or local local police Yeah, I mean I gave a couple of other reasons, right? It needs to be secure. It needs to be open source It needs to be easy to use I'll skip this one well, this is an important point I think by Backdoors are bad. We shouldn't have backdoors and software because if you have a backdoor then One party has access but that one party will not be the only one our backdoor cannot Separate I mean your front door doesn't separate between a good and a bad guy coming in neither does a backdoor and software It's just not possible So our solution the company I work for that community I'm active in is next cloud. It's a private self-hosted cloud It's a replacement for essentially office 365 of Google apps. There are 200 apps as I mentioned earlier They're developed by our community and ecosystem. There is audio video talk app. There are Mail app Calendar contact all kinds of stuff You can run your own next loud at home. It's completely open source. It's easy to use It's relatively easy to deploy. Please keep in mind that running a server is hard But if you run a server then relatively speaking next loud is pretty easy to deploy and use We spend a lot of time and effort on keeping it easy to use And it scales very well our biggest customer has 25 million users Our smallest customer 50 because we don't sell under that and we do not in any way try to monetize home users Private users and small businesses because we think for them the product should be good enough to use for free It's open source after all and we spent actually quite a bit of effort on keeping it that way It seems your file again Google Drive dropbox. It does all the things they do There isn't really any feature gap there. So I'm not gonna go for all the features We do plenty of stuff They don't do by the way and the biggest part of that is our apps. I will skip security We're the I think I can easily say we're the most secure self-hosted Clouds solution of housing can share on the market if you don't trust me go to hacker one com slash next clouds Look at how we deal with security Then pick your other favorite project and just compare if they don't have an hacker one project or another bug bounty program You're crazy for trusting them because if they don't want to put their money where their mouth is then seriously Don't trust them. Sorry, but I seriously think a bug bounty program is the minimum you need to do if you care about users data Don't offense to anyone. I'm sure There are people who do a good job, but yeah open source then some millions of users over a big community And I think we're at the end of my time