>That said, not everybody is enthusiastic about uploading their country’s secrets onto the cloud. The opposition party, the leftist Central Party, is against it, just as it opposes electronic voting — insisting both initiatives pose too many potential security risks.<p>>But Kotka says all the data will be encrypted and impossible to access or erase without authorization. “You would have to bring the whole Internet down,” he explains, describing it as “untouchable.”<p>Whenever valid privacy and security concerns are raised with government IT systems (e-voting, centralised health care records, etc), this seems to be the kneejerk reaction: "No, it's all encrypted, you don't need to worry about it."<p>As a result, it's seems to be completely impossible to have a real discussion of the problems. In this case, this statement does nothing to answer the concerns, and yet it seems it placated the reporter.