Clarification: do not store anything in "the cloud" that you wouldn't be willing to put on a thumb drive and hand to your neighbor, boss, pastor, son, daughter, mother, police...
If it doesn't pass that test, but you still want it out there... You had better encrypt the {expletive} out of it. Otherwise you're just gambling that your little bit of embarrassing or incriminating data will be lost in the terabytes of cat pictures and boring holiday photos...
RE: Clarification: do not store anything in “the cloud” that you wouldn’t be willing to put on a thumb drive and hand to your neighbor, boss, pastor, son, daughter, mother, police...
Every single Facebook and Google Mail, Yahoo mail or Microsoft Hotmail user out there is screwed... hundreds of millions to a billion of them.