The Coming Police State

The obvious question: why would Joe User want storage space on someone else's system when he could encrypt on his own system?

Reliability in case of disk failure. Disk failure includes disk seizure. My private keys ought well to exist somewhere other than in their usual place of residence and around that physical environs. Likewise, they ought to be stored somewhere other than publically known storage locations like safe deposit boxes. And private keys are ony the first sort of sensitive data whose loss has extremely large consequences. And, as Tim points out, if the data site if offshore, so much the better. Eric