Bring back your servers

Home gardening and power knitting are examples of popular retro-trends as many people re-experience old values and traditional ways of doing things for themselves. Retro-trends are making their way into the realm of computing as well: In the aftermath of Prism and Tempora, having more control over servers and services is an example of such a retro-trend. Advanced developers may even build their own devices, appliances, and even networks with complex network segments and experimental protocols using Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and create their own broadcast applications using programmable chipsets on the basis of Software-Defined Radio (SDR). In this track, participants learn how to set up a fileserver, set up an email server, launch a blog, maintain a web server, and host a personal web shop to sell, for example, their knitted socks. Participants learn about system hardening, firewall configuration, and email encryption, in addition to setting up a Tor server. A list of tools and projects might include but is not limited to Owncloud, postfix, exim, sendmail, wordpress, dyn-DNS, webshops, apache, nginx, hardening, mod_security, firewalls, netfilter, nftables, Tor, GPG, Enigmail, OpenWRT, Freifunk, OpenVSwitch, and OpenFlow.