Comment by 6510

My idea seems more generic (or less specific) than the topic, perhaps it is of use:

1) The number of people with control over you should be as small as possible.

2) The number of people held responsible for your actions should also be as small as possible.

3) The number of people trusted with your security should also be as small as possible.

If you are going to give up control in favor of convenience you should carefully consider if it is worth it and for how long. Control also means you can pay a huge price at any time. There is a certain risk for the deal to suddenly not be worth it.

If you are going to have others be responsible for your writings and actions you should also carefully consider if it is worth it. The responsible thing to do could be to preemptively shut you down when in doubt. The legal situation/law may also change and require critical analysis of things you wrote long ago. Each word you write is a ticket in the false-positive lottery.

Then when all of the above works out fine you still have to trust people, all of your documents may end up publicly available after some breach out of your control or encrypted behind a ransom paywall. It is going to be different from putting things on usb drives and keeping them in your vault physically.