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Topic: The European Union considering forcing IT companies to share encryption keys (Read 954 times)

hero member
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MAIDsafe + meshnet = game over for them.
You really think that they couldn't kill those projects if they wanted to...?
No they objectively cant.
Unless they raid homes randomly looking for nodes.
legendary
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Terminated.
MAIDsafe + meshnet = game over for them.
You really think that they couldn't kill those projects if they wanted to...?
hero member
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MAIDsafe + meshnet = game over for them.
legendary
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ASMR El Salvador
Direct Democracy 2.0 is needed more than ever.
legendary
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Even if this happens it will just be the start of a creation of new technologies that circumvent it.
Yep, exactly. In fact it's already begun. Plenty of alternatives that work on "need to know" basis. And you simply don't need to know your user's encryption keys to offer them cloud storage or communication or messaging services.
legendary
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What's the big deal. Simply stick to communication and storage services that don't HAVE your encryption key: SpiderOak, Wuala, Telegram (using Secret Chat), BitTorrent Bleep, etc.

No government can't force a company to share or reveal something they simply don't have.
full member
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We'll be able to tell all of them " 'to be fruitful and multiply', but not in those words" when MaidSafe rolls in not before long.
We're going to become the sole masters of the keys.
Amen.

legendary
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Forcing companies to share encryption keys? That is ridiculous and destroys the whole security that encryption provides.
copper member
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No I dont escrow anymore.
Crypto war 2.0. We will win again.
hero member
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WOW! That is insane, if true.
inded , this is absoloutley mind blowing i hope it isent true tho o.o
legendary
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... For example there is supposedly a European Union president, but does anyone even know his name? I don't.


No one knows. because there's no such thing as one EU president.

There are presidents of EU council/commission/parliament, those positions doesn't come with any real power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_European_Union


God
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WOW! That is insane, if true.

It's not talked much about, probably because national media in different European countries don't follow what happens in the EU. For example there is supposedly a European Union president, but does anyone even know his name? I don't.

A large share of the European Union leadership have their political roots in former soviet satellite states with one party systems (the communist party). Craziness is expected to come from that.
Sure, because the NSA is communist.

NSA is just their new master.
hero member
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WOW! That is insane, if true.

It's not talked much about, probably because national media in different European countries don't follow what happens in the EU. For example there is supposedly a European Union president, but does anyone even know his name? I don't.

A large share of the European Union leadership have their political roots in former soviet satellite states with one party systems (the communist party). Craziness is expected to come from that.
Sure, because the NSA is communist.
God
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WOW! That is insane, if true.

It's not talked much about, probably because national media in different European countries don't follow what happens in the EU. For example there is supposedly a European Union president, but does anyone even know his name? I don't.

A large share of the European Union leadership have their political roots in former soviet satellite states with one party systems (the communist party). Craziness is expected to come from that.
legendary
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WOW! That is insane, if true.
God
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http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/jan/eu-council-ct-ds-1035-15.pdf (page 10)

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Since the Snowden revelations, internet and telecommunications companies have started to use often de-centralized encryption which increasingly makes lawful interception by the relevant national authorities technically difficult or even impossible. The Commission should be invited to explore rules obliging internet and telecommunications companies operating in the EU to provide under certain conditions as set out in the relevant national laws and in full compliance with fundamental rights access of the relevant national authorities to communications (i.e. share encryption keys).

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