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It's certainly not something everyone can or should worry about. I'm a computer hobbyist so I don't mind experimenting and running my own servers. What Google sounds like to me these days is some guy who knocks on your front door and says, "You want to keep your stuff at my house? I won't touch it, I promise, and that way you don't have to pay for storage. I'm a nice guy, you can trust me." He may even be a nice guy and he might actually be trustworthy, but I feel vulnerable if someone else has all my stuff. There are too many things that could happen to it and I don't have the same degree of control over it that I normally would.