> Keeping things in someone else’s desk drawer can be convenient and offer a sufficient level of privacy for many purposes.
Too torture a metaphor to death, are you going to keep your bank passwords in somebody else's desk drawer? Are you going to keep 100 million people's bank passwords in that drawer?
> I guess, since I’m not a carpenter, I can buy a flatpack desk from ikea and assemble it and keep my stuff in that. I’m not sure that’s an improvement to my privacy posture in any meaningful sense though.
If you're not a carpenter I would recommend you stay out of the business of building safe desk drawers all together. Although you should probably still be able to recognize that the desk drawer you own, that is inside your own locked house is a safer option then the one at the office accessible by any number of people.
If you have something physical of equivalent value to 100 million people's bank passwords, you may well not want to risk keeping it in a desk drawer at all, and instead want to look into renting a nice secure drawer from someone else to keep it in. That would be a safety deposit box.
Which I would argue is rather more like what cloud providers offer than 'someone else's desk drawer' is.
Too torture a metaphor to death, are you going to keep your bank passwords in somebody else's desk drawer? Are you going to keep 100 million people's bank passwords in that drawer?
> I guess, since I’m not a carpenter, I can buy a flatpack desk from ikea and assemble it and keep my stuff in that. I’m not sure that’s an improvement to my privacy posture in any meaningful sense though.
If you're not a carpenter I would recommend you stay out of the business of building safe desk drawers all together. Although you should probably still be able to recognize that the desk drawer you own, that is inside your own locked house is a safer option then the one at the office accessible by any number of people.