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."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Ronald Reagan did a few good things

[HBI]

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.

Re:Ronald Reagan did a few good things

[HBI]

Perhaps we should have supplied weapons to the Algerian rebels in the 50's and 60's, or maybe to the Vietminh in the 1940s and 50s.

That would have been a little more comparable in terms of a backstab.

Re:The UK's role in the EU

[invalid_address]

and what does this have to do with Quantum Encryption?

perhaps the green bandana clad illiterate 14yr old palestinean suicide bombers can use this new encryption scheme to pass the echelon guarded roadside checkpoint and blow themselves up along with some NATIVE JEWS. someone forgot to read their history book.

jesus loves you and encryption. take your political agenda elsewhere.

rawr.

Yes, the French did supply Iraq with weapons

[HBI]

You can hide it with your mod points but it's a well known fact.

Got a lot of press play in Summer 03 and won't be forgotten in the very near future.

So much for French altruism.

Re:The interesting case of the UK

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

It's about bloody time ...

[quarkscat]

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.