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EU To Counter Echelon With Quantum Cryptography?
jfruhlinger writes "An article on Security.ITWorld.com seems to outline a coming information arms race. The European Union has decided to respond to the Echelon project by funding research into supposedly unbreakable quantum cryptography that will keep EU data out of Echelon's maw. Leaving aside the question of whether such a thing is possible, the political implications are troubling, indicating a widening rift within the Western world. Interestingly, the UK is part of the EU, but its intelligence services are among Echelon's sponsors."
If the UK being close the US damages the UK relationship with the EU, then the EU members should stop lying and pretending they are US allies.
The 9/11 hijackers had lots of connections in Germany. That's the kind of stuff they are looking for because Germany doesn't have the means or will to do it themselves. The US is not trying to topple the German government by engineering internal conflicts within the Bundestag based on interoffice email. They are trying to keep bad stuff from happening by listening to communications of terrorists lodging in Germany.
You can call me a fascist or whatever but if letting a supercomputer cluster sift through my meaningless personal emails (which it will disregard) is the price I have to pay for not getting planes crashed on me, then I'll pay it.
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No, it's just another bit of anti-American propaganda that's been repeated enough that people believe it.
The US used to prevent EXPORT of good encryption and of software with hooks to support good encryption, but certain America-haters through ignorance or malice distorted the facts into the lie above.
If you want to see encryption regulations, look at what France or Russia has done (at least in the past, I don't know if either country still has domestic restrictions).