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And all of that security goes out of the window when Google stores all of your data on their servers, and it gets hacked. From what I've noticed hackers increasingly prefer going after major companies to steal user data now, because it's much easier to get millions of accounts in one go this way. Google may not be Equifax, but the more data it stores on us, the more juicier of a target it becomes, especially for nation states. Local national governments will also keep changing their laws to allow themselves to get more data from Google, too.


You can encrypt your profile sync data with a password different from your Google password, so that Google cannot read the data.


How do you do this? I really need to step up my security game. As an aside - are you encrypting all your cloud storage data, and if so, what tool are you using?


  > How do you do this? 
Settings → Sync



Is there a decent way to access rclone-crypt encrypted files from an Android or iOS device?


Try rclone on Termux (https://termux.com/). See: https://github.com/ncw/rclone/wiki/rclone-on-Android-with-Te... The thing is that you can't mount on Android since the lack of fuse on Termux.


Data is going to be much more secure on Google servers than anywhere else, imo.




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