> If you can't trust your provider not to read your unencrypted some of the time data, you're using the wrong provider, and making backups much harder than they

> If you can't trust your provider not to read your unencrypted some of the time data, you're using the wrong provider, and making backups much harder than they need to be. This could just be me acting like a post-Snowden jaded American, but the providers themselves aren't whom I'm skeptical of anymore. When the author wrote that a company's "cloud" could be spread out between "five data centers, three continents, three hosting providers, and two storage providers," they seemed to be implying that there are a lot of opportunities for a company other than yours to hire someone just shady enough to do some damage. What I first thought of, though, was that were sooo many companies for a government to confront, demand access, and then threaten to ruin them if they told anybody.