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The European Commission will in June push for access to data stored in the cloud by encrypted apps, according to EU Justice Commissioner Věra Jourová. Speaking publicly, and claiming that she has been pushed by politicians across Europe, Jourová said that she will outline "three or four options" that range from voluntary …

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  1. steve hayes
    FAIL

    Ridiculous

    As an IT aware person, like many here, I can think of a few ways which could get around any 'interception' of encrypted communications assuming it was done in an organised manner. I am sure there are far better 'brains' than mine that could think up even subtle better ways.

    Apart from risky backdoors, it is a fundamental requirement of the security of business and banking that transactions are fully secure. Perhaps the EEC and Trump should seek advice from the 'Ruskies' who seem to have some sort of an advantage on this.

  2. Stevie

    Bah!

    And on the eighth day the banking system got rooted and the world was forcibly pushed back onto the barter system, which in turn caused the collapse of the taxation systems across the western world bringing with it the destruction of each and every government bigger vthan a village bowling green maintenance committee.

  3. oneeye

    World's Experts Speak Out

    Here is a paper by some of the top experts on Encryption and Information Security.

    PDF,encryption paper,experts

    http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/97690/MIT-CSAIL-TR-2015-026.pdf?sequence=6

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Her name appears Eastern European

    They should know better than most about the dangers of states spying on their citizens.

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