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In the not-too-distant future—as little as a decade, perhaps, nobody knows exactly how long—the cryptography protecting your bank transactions, chat messages, and medical records from prying eyes is going to break spectacularly with the advent of quantum computing. i would think i've established that i'm very quick to shoot down any sort of doomsday scenario i believe is nonsense, or, more usually, something overhyped in the news to get pageviews but this actually seems stunning real. quantum computers are, indeed, on the threshold of ceasing to be a snarky punchline -- and this is what has been published publicly; you can be sure the chinese have something in a lab and if the wrong person sees it they get shot at first i was thinking: "man, we can crack all sorts of ancient mysteries, open stuff that's been locked for years since the person with the key lost it or died" etc and actually just thinking what nice things it could do |
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but then i see this highlighted comment, and, fucking hell: Those giant NSA data centers in the middle of the desert were basically constructed for the moment quantum computing becomes viable. Pretty crazy (and terrifying) when you think about it: they'll be able to decrypt every piece of traffic they've ever saved. Every (major, first-world) government is about to learn how much every other government has lied to them. And of course, everything about their own citizens' digital activities, to the extent they care enough to go searching. I do worry about the long-term ramifications of this sort of thing. Imagine a president like Trump having access to this stuff. Someone decides to challenge Trump's third term and gets a little note: "hey, we checked into your search history; looks like you had some pretty, ah, "exotic" taste in porn back in 2007. Would be a shame if that ended up in the papers." ...and, wow, never mind being worried about your CC info buying off amazon, that will cause at least 2^6 messes at once and humans max out a little beyond 2^2 and this is how 80-car highway pileups happen. except it could be governments, corporations, and peoples lives i also think of that episode of serial experiments lain, i think it's layer 08, rumors, everyone's stuff publicized on the wired. the older i get, the more that series finally makes sense to me |
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keep data in hed. try scan my hed when in my faraday hat |
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what will this do to cryptocurrency noooo not my doooooooge |
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it doesnt matter whats real, it´s what people are willing to believe |
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practical quantum computing is no where near, its all journo bollox, same with general AI. |
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it seems more likely some application-specific quantum thing that can instantly factor large numbers |
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it is surely the 3 letter people that spread stories implying they are sitting on fucking yottabytes of storage and access to every optic fibre in the world |
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>> layer 08 what is that? |
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(sorry to post loads) i visited my parents recently and they made me sit through this new 'cyber terrorism' thriller thing on channel4, with Simon Pegg as boss of GCHQ (i kno rite)... it was literally like that bit in IT Crowd where Jen has the internet in a box and manages to break it. The gap between reality and journo/public ideas of this stuff is so large it's bonkers... may aswell read Neuromancer or Snow Crash or watch Hackers, at least that's fun. |
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as long as fuckin TheRegister and hackernews still have RSS feeds, WE'rE ALRIGHT |
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