What about privacy situations related to running a bouncer on a VPS?
reddit / irc

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galakx · 2019-06-21 04:59

I'm starting right now to use IRC frequently and I also plan to set a
bouncer up on my VPS but is this okay in terms of privacy? Because
maybe my VPS provider (OVH) could read my IRC private messages in some
way, I guess. Besides, I also plan to run a bitlbee server for
telegram and skype accounts.

What do you guys think? Many thanks :)

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A-UNDERSCORE-D · 2019-06-21 05:14

So long as you're using encrypted ports, your VPS provider will be
unable to snoop in on your network traffic.

That said, your VPS provider also controls the hypervisor that your
VPS runs on, and therefore could access the memory or disk of the
machine in question directly. Thats not to say that your provider does
that, or even has the for staff members to do. But it *is* a
possibility to consider, if your messages are *that* secret

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galakx · 2019-06-21 05:23

Normal messages I'd say. I'm a pretty regular tech guy with a regular
job and stuffs. Im just curious about it.

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trekkie1701c · 2019-06-21 17:19

If you're particularly paranoid you can always run the bouncer locally
at home and then do a SSH tunnel to the VPS to allow the bouncer to be
accessed outside the home network; so long as you're only using SSL
the VPS won't have any method of seeing what the unencrypted data is.

But then you lose some reliability and honestly it's just easier to
host the bouncer on the VPS with some decent security practices in
mind.