MariaDB Privacy-First Stack: Nextcloud, Passbolt and MariaDB Server

I hear this sentence a lot: “We care about privacy.”

Good.

But then you look a bit closer.

Files are on some cloud platform. Nobody is completely sure which settings were changed two years ago. Passwords are in browsers, in chat messages, sometimes in a document with a name like credentials-final-v3. Backups? “The provider handles that.” Maybe. Where is the data exactly? “In Europe, normally.” Who has access? That’s when the room becomes quiet.

I don’t call that a privacy strategy.

I call that hoping nothing goes wrong.