&gt; It is true that customer data is trusted with a lot of services-of-services nowadays, but do you want to go back to the stone age where the only people who can store anything must run their own hardware with their own databases and so on?<p>This statement is in conflict with itself logically. It&#x27;s arguing that <i>diminished trust levels</i> for data are rationalized to achieve a <i>savings in time and cost</i> to run the infrastructure for the application. The conflict comes about when you start <i>assuming</i> the data has acceptable levels of trust requirements for a given customer. The fact is, you can&#x27;t speak for my trust levels, which is <i>exactly what is being discussed in the link</i>.<p>I get to say what trust levels I want for my software and data. Not being able to use the software because I can&#x27;t trust it is an unacceptable proposition, so I challenge our abilities to build something better than what we have today, and do so without rationalizing why we aren&#x27;t building it.