First of all, cue the standard complaints about
the sidekick "not being a true cloud."
As if not being a true cloud gets anybody's data
back, and as if you have any way of knowing if
your provider is giving you a "true cloud" or not.
"As consumers, we have two options of storing our
digital data: locally or elsewhere in the cloud."
It need not be either/or, however!
It can be both!
The backup motto has always been, and should
always be: Your data doesn't exist unless it's in
two or more places.
And the cloud is one place, not two.
"Applying this principal of protection to our
discussion of data loss, we can infer that
passwords and other identifying information are
important, but not as important as the actual
documents that contain information of monetary or
other value."
There is, unfortunately, a fatal flaw in your
logic:
Passwords and identifying information are the keys
to accessing the actual documents. If they gain
the keys, they gain access to the documents.
This isn't an airplane. It's a locked box.
-1 for poor use of metaphor.
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