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EU To Counter Echelon With Quantum Cryptography?

Posted by simoniker on from the if-it-exists dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Ronald Reagan did a few good things by HBI · · Score: 0, Troll

    The French were doing lots of illegal and immoral things in Iraq pre-2003. Our troops were getting shot at with a fair amount of French hardware dating from 2001 .

    True friends don't supply armaments to people that were shooting at US and British warplanes daily years before ground hostilities commenced. France is not the US's friend.

    --
    HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
  2. Re:The interesting case of the UK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    And trust me there are those of us who would love nothing better than the UK to finally drop out of the EU. You don't want the Euro, you start wars for your American masters, you support the Echelon project, you oppose any kind of attempt to further integrate the EU, and you have your soldiers rape women in Kenya.

    The EU can live just perfectly fine without the spineless brits. Go join America. Hitler didn't take over the UK, but Bush managed.

  3. It's about bloody time ... by quarkscat · · Score: 0, Troll

    that the EU starts protecting their citizens
    from the heavy hand of the US government.

    The good old USA stopped being a representative
    democracy in December, 2000, when a coup d'e-tat
    by a coalition of neo-conservatives, religious
    fundamentalists (including Islamic), certain
    energy and defense contractor companies, and a
    cliche within the intelligence agencies (the same
    one that brought us Iran-Contra Gate) overthrew
    the government of/by/and for the people.

    It can now be more properly classified as a
    national socialist (fascist) oligarchy.