GermTheGeek

How would one go about safely destroying multiple hard-disks anyway. Closest thing I can think of is a small compactor with the disks inside of it.

When I said "Host your own" I meant on a physically secure box using full disk encryption.

But I do like the idea of encryption, GPG does this really well already but key distribution is still a problem.

Just an idea for a secure physical box: Throw in a external "always on" GPS receiver on the box and have it physically destroy the hard drive if it is outside of a certain area or if it detects a certain amount of movement (think someone removing it from a rack without disabling the service first). If your server was moved/confiscated it would ensure some safety. Just a tinfoil thought.

Now the question is: What major options do privacy advocates have apart from hosting their own mailservers?

Probably something like Duck Duck Go, or something.

Made me laugh at the very least, RMS is a nutter.

I've always tried to devote as much time to my work as possible, whenever possible. However my job drained the energy out of me and made any effort I put in become spread out over multiple little projects. The main reason I'm asking this here is because I have a nice amount of time to sit down and work on one little project until completion.

Honestly if I can hold it in my hands and it works in a unconventional way, it's brilliant.

Another poster mentioned GB development, I honestly think controlling external devices (AVR, Arduino, etc) in a standard way using something like a GameBoy would be a worthwhile project.

I've been looking at GB Development fairly closely, might put together some kind of little project in that. Extremely close to the hardware which is always nice and I just need a little flash cart to let it run on my old GBC to show it off. Thanks!