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> imminent The arrival of quantum computers doesn't have to be imminent for it to cause harm. The Utah datacenter (and likely others) store giant amounts of en
by est31 6y ago
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The arrival of quantum computers doesn't have to be imminent for it to cause harm. The Utah datacenter (and likely others) store giant amounts of encrypted content, waiting for the key exchange to become decryptable. Currently almost all communication we consider to be encrypted is not safe from quantum computers.
How great would it be in 30 years if you had great evidence that people who are in the prime of their careers have done embarrassing things in their youth. You could extort them or use it to get them out of the way if they turn out to be a problem. The value of such information in fact increases over time as those people rise to more important positions of society.
So ideally, we'd switch to quantum confidential key exchange as soon as possible so that such an attack can't be done.
- tialaramex 6y ago> How great would it be in 30 years if you had great evidence that people who are in the prime of their careers have done embarrassing things in their youth. Yes, Facebook does exist. I've written about this before. People who don't have a past with vaguely embarrassing things they did and goofy photos and the wrong friends and so on are not future politicians, they are ghosts and their future is as foreign intelligence agents. Do you know what sank Prime Minister "Call me Dave" Cameron in the United Kingdom? Was it the unverified and likely fictitious stories about a pig - similar to events from a popular a TV show? The family tax scandal? Something he did at school or as a young man? Photographs of him dressed like someone from a different century? Nope. What sank Dave was assuming that voters wouldn't destroy their own country to spite people they don't like (including him). A depressingly ordinary political tale, that could come from any era in history.
- Google234 6y agoWow, that story is really irrelevant. Take the time to read about cancel culture.