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>>It's stories like these that reinforce my own justification for running my own email server.

Stories like these that reinforce my continual recommendation to client to maintain their own backups of all data on "cloud services"

I see a trend of people believing that once "its in the cloud" they do not have to worry about backups anymore...

This will burn alot of people and companies

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Backing up email isn't even hard. Just use a desktop client and you have a local copy now.

It's hard to keep it updated when you don't regularly use a desktop client and also don't want someone stealing your laptop to get a copy of all your emails.

If they can get in to your laptop then they can view your webmail.

Also disk encryption.

I was precisely trying to explain why "it's hard", not "it's impossible".

How is that hard at all? Log in to your email with thunderbird and have it open on boot.

Open on boot... with my password already put in? And the sync files in plaintext right there? What about when someone steals your laptop?

Well he did say

> Also disk encryption

And I did say "hard" and not "impossible"...

Disk encryption is just a button you click on install (Actually on most OSs now its the default)

That kind of encryption is not helpful when the laptop is already on. You need the kind that you can mount/unmount in when you're somewhere safe like at home. I'm also getting tired of these mindless persistent replies making me repeat my points over and over so this will be the last time I'll humor them.

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