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3 Ways Quantum Computing Will Change Our World

Fergus O'Sullivan

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  • Quantum computing will likely have the biggest immediate impact on encryption, and anything that is encrypted
  • Where a regular supercomputer would need billions of years to crack most commercial ciphers, a quantum computer could do it in seconds.
  • Once quantum computers come online, this effectively means the end of privacy as we know it now, or at least secured with our current technologies. Your messaging history, your emails, any files you have in storage, will all be readable, as will any records of you kept by others, like insurance companies or even the government.