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I'm sorry to break the eco-parade, but this just doesn't fit with my work. At all.

I wouldn't put my company's documents in the cloud. Google, are you kidding me? Then again most of my work is security orientated. So my experience might differ.

Second, as a developer, I wouldn't give-up pen and paper for doing mathematics and for doodling algorithms and attempts at solving daily problems. I tried to do it on the computer a lot of times but it's just a waste of time and I always end-up focusing on the tools rather on the problem at hand.

From my experience these paperless speeches come from SUV drivers that read about it in this months Corporate Magazine's issue.

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Let's hope your office is secure since your security model relies on preventing physical access.

Your point about focusing too much on the tools when going digital is important. Often I get sucked into some fancy ToDo app for my short lists of personal tasks. Down I go into the rabbit hole of productivity apps and soon enough I realize I should have just scribbled it on a piece of paper and be done with it instead of buying into a whole ecosystem of digital tools to manage tasks that will be thought of, recorded and completed in minutes or hours.

> Let's hope your office is secure since your security model relies on preventing physical access.

It doesn't have to be physical. I can just store documents on a server that I own and have control over. That still doesn't make it secure because I have to watchout for 0-days and what not. And even then it wouldn't be secure.

But at least I have controllability and observability. I can access and modify them anytime I want to and I also know when someone had unauthorized access to them.

Of course this is not entirely true in Mission Impossible like scenarios. And I'm not saying everyone should do what I do.

But I profundly dislike the superior attitude in articles such as these where the author tells me what to do and asks me why I'm not doing it yet.

Pretty much all security breaks if the attacker has physical access to what he is trying to break into.

For your second point: i still use paper for doodling as brainstorming. Then it's either discarded or scanned.

So I use paper plenty, I just generally don't store it

Me neither. I just put it in the paper bin and off to recycling it goes.

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