A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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This is a cool project, I have quite a few questions! Are you planning an “app store” repo of supported software? Allowing us to add our own repos? Can i set up a reverse proxy/VPN tunneling using my own hardware, or is remote access only available through a Safebox subscription? If I can set it up is that manual, guided, or automatic? Why Docker instead of Podman?
I’m happy to answer — I am one of the developers of Safebox. First question: the store. It’s not finished yet, but if you visit our original gitea site (https://git.format.hu/safebox/default-applications-tree) and check the template examples, you’ll see that any application that can run in Docker can be added. I will soon move this repository to GitHub so it can be freely forked and you can add your own. You can already try adding one on an earlier (uglier) interface that we experimented with: http://<the IP address or hostname of your Safebox>:8080/manage_old.html. Click Settings, and the first menu item is the option to add another repository.
Second question: remote access is not subscription-based, and it does not require VPN. If you have a public IP address, install Safebox there, register a domain name somewhere (point it to your IP address as an A record, wildcard is also possible), and the proxy service will work. (But be aware: Safebox will also be accessible on port 8080, and there is no authentication protection for now!)
Third question: I wasn’t very familiar with Podman when I started working on this (I only had to learn it for the RedHat exam…)
Those are all very good questions that I’m sure many of us would like to know the answers to.