newshound wrote:

Otherwise all anyone needs do is keep their dodgy stuff in the Cloud or
encrypted on a server hosted in some lawless region of the internet.

But in principle they can pick it up in transit, and even with end to
end encryption it's an offence not to disclose the key.

'I' don't know the key, it's negotiated between the two machines
between which I'm transferring data.

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Chris Green
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