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Security is an in-depth proposition. The most common and damaging mistake is to assume things won't happen for the sake of convenience. (Denial) I run into otherwise smart clients weekly who refuse to see purpose or benefit in the single steps required to lock things down because it interferes with a useful feature. Sometimes security means avoiding products entirely. Each user/entity must decide what's important and how to secure it, hopefully after qualified individuals consider the ramifications. Your data may not be important, nobody may ever break into Google's systems, authorities may never request or spread the information further, but it's generally unwise to assume these things, even if the data opened up is only your own. Consider customers, friends, relatives. Keep it simple. Would it cause you problems if your drive were stolen? Might you be liable for damages?
Assume the worst, work toward something better.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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