To be effective, this would need to become a kind of norm for overseas travelers, the same way traveler's checks used to be. The idea would be that just as you don't carry a bag with your birth certificate, stock certificates, property titles, and jewelry with you, you also don't carry a 10 year archive of every email you've ever sent or a detailed list of every person you've ever spoken to. In particular, it needs t…
> I think it's crazy that people walk around with phones that have access to years of email communications Why? I thought the whole point of connected, portable computers is for one to have access to pretty much all their data on the go.
Much of the point of the cloud shift was to get your data into the ownership of a private company who can make money off it.
If, for example, Apple can make up some lost money on iCloud with new obsidian gunmetal TimeCapsules with plausible deniability and localhost-tunneling features to sell to rich people, I'm sure they will try and do it.