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Originally Posted by pilotbob
So you don't use a bank, or have an insurance company, or use email, or post on forums right?
BOb
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Don't you really notice a difference, security-wise, between using a bank and cloud storage?
If someone comes with a court injunction, to investigate your bank account, the worst you could suffer is the loss of money you owe someone (but didn't intend to pay). Money itself won't incriminate you, neither will it break your privacy or allow unwanted people to have a look at your trade secrets.
As concerns cloud storage, imagine a situation when you keep all your (important and unimportant) stuff in the cloud. Suddenly there comes a court injunction allowing any law enforcement agency or similar one (police? CIA? RIAA?) to have a look at whatever you keep there.
For example, someone, as a joke or revenge, accuses you of pedophilia. The police, fulfilling the court injunction, look around your stuff and don't find any sexually inappropriate material on your account. However, they can see all the other stuff - perhaps your business secrets, your next masterpiece awaiting publication, whatever you had there - and some corrupted policeman leaks the knowledge to your competition. You might even not know who was there, what they found and what they did with your stuff. Even worse, what about a situation when you keep any kind of illicit material? Even though original court injunction concerned something else (pedophilia in our example), won't they use their knowledge to charge you on the basis of what they find in your cloud account?