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 Alice is always on the move, often with her trusty netbook and a small
 handheld terabyte USB drive, or a smaller USB keydrive. She has a server
-out there on the net. She stores data in the Cloud. All these things can
-have different files on them, but Alice no longer has to deal with the
-tedious process of keeping them manually in sync, or remembering where
-she put a file.
+out there on the net. She stores data, encrypted in the Cloud.
+
+All these things can have different files on them, but Alice no longer
+has to deal with the tedious process of keeping them manually in sync,
+or remembering where she put a file. git-annex manages all these data
+sources as if they were git remotes.
+<small>[[more about special remotes|special_remotes]]</small>
 
 When she has 1 bar on her cell, Alice queues up interesting files on her
 server for later. At a coffee shop, she has git-annex download them to her