For all practical purposes, there's no such thing as a human being who thinks that a briefcase left on the front step of a home (in most neighborhoods) is safe by any definition. The un-safety to that scenario is immediately and plainly obvious.
By contrast, there are plenty of human beings -- albeit clearly no one here -- who either don't see that cloud storage is theoretically accessible by others, or don't find it obvious how it could be hacked. We here in this thread might find that absurd for various reasons; apparently, those reasons run the gamut from comparably-ignorant fear to legitimate and thorough knowledge of IT security. Either way, the fact is that among the general public, there is less of an expectation of theft of private data from cloud storage than of theft of property from something left out in the open. That alone means the analogy doesn't work, except maybe in the sense that it describes some people's gut reactions.
We can rail on ignorance all we want, but the fact that it exists -- and can never be exterminated -- MUST be accounted for. It's about as human as human gets.
By contrast, there are plenty of human beings -- albeit clearly no one here -- who either don't see that cloud storage is theoretically accessible by others, or don't find it obvious how it could be hacked. We here in this thread might find that absurd for various reasons; apparently, those reasons run the gamut from comparably-ignorant fear to legitimate and thorough knowledge of IT security. Either way, the fact is that among the general public, there is less of an expectation of theft of private data from cloud storage than of theft of property from something left out in the open. That alone means the analogy doesn't work, except maybe in the sense that it describes some people's gut reactions.
We can rail on ignorance all we want, but the fact that it exists -- and can never be exterminated -- MUST be accounted for. It's about as human as human gets.