No, the sky isn't falling, but Q Day is coming, and it won't be as expensive as thought.

No, the sky isn’t falling, but Q Day is coming, and it won’t be as expensive as thought.

  • Mangoholic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    91·
    6 days ago

    Why the focus on breaking encryption. Can these computers not be used for better things

    • someacnt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      5 days ago

      I learned that QC can be used for general search problems, so it could get used for more efficient web browsing, etc. But those are relatively more difficult tasks, I guess.

    • hoch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      6 days ago

      In a perfect world, yes. But instead, we have countries like Russia (and probably now the US) which would love to use this technology for nefarious purposes.

      • parzival@lemmy.orgEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        Not just the us now, the us at any point in history since encryption would’ve used quantum to break it