Bad people will always be motivated to go the extra mile to do bad things.

They also argue that it cannot fall to them to determine good actors from bad—not all governments are forces for good, and who decides how each one should be treated.

By putting our data in the corporate cloud, we are that kid. We are giving corporations and governments a way to see where we are looking towards, and they can predict our future and decide whether and how to intervene or subvert.

From a game theoretic standpoint, we’ve already lost. Too many of our civil society adversaries have too much of our data, and we have so little of theirs.

Could you lose access to your own password data if we disappeared from the face of the Earth or turned evil?