any honest person
Any honest person might think they shouldn't care, until one day, because of a strange phone call to your cellphone from an acquaintance who got mixed up in something you didn't know about, or an odd piece of spam, or a conversation you had with someone via e-mail, only later finding out that person was a nut, the government shows up and wants to -take- your computer, phone, all your stuff.. "just to examine it".. weeks later, maybe you get it back, maybe not, maybe you get it back and the data's trashed.
"any honest person" - that is one sure line that a cop will use for intimidation when asking to search you when he has no factual reason or right to do so. It's a psychology that has been cultivated in the general public for means of compliance and control. OK, so now wake up.. it's a lie.
Never think that an honest person should not care, not for a minute. -because the government is not honest, nor moral. It only goes by the laws it makes, and it will bend them as much as it feels like it has to and as much as it thinks it can get away with.
the 'cloud' is a big nice place to store things that you want everyone to see. Might as well post it all on face book.
What is needed more widely, and which some people probably already do, is have their 'real' computer (the one with the important private data) somewhere elsewhere than their home, and their trivial computer sits on the desk as the "subpoena target", and is really just a terminal for stupid things like FB, webmail, and the rest. Regardless of what anyone says, it is easy to transfer an important, private piece of data between two computers (like from the silly home computer to the private important computer) and leave no decipherable trace of it at all. This is an extremely honest thing to do. It is called "practicing your 4th ammendment rights". It is very patriotic.
As for the cellphone, well it is what it is. I don't allow e-mail, internet or web objects, apps, or texts to arrive on mine. I am sure that will horrify many people, but geez do you really need all that junk with you every moment of every day?
