Quantum Computing Has Hacked You

You won't be informed of it for a couple of years, maybe a bit more, but it is happening now. Because you have not post-Quantum proofed your systems/data at rest.

If you work on anything important with the Intel Community, you already have to have post-quantum encryption.. I mean the community at Langley and the Fort, not the chip maker, one in a long search for a functioning strategy.

Quantum Computing that has broad impact and that can easily decrypt current encrypted data is a thing of the future. It is maybe three or two or four years away. Essentially right around the corner.

But in a somewhat quantum style it is stealing your data now. 'Harvest now decrypt' later might be one of the biggest efforts in cyber theft today with the backing of state actors.

It is not like the picture below, where your cybersecurity team is somewhat unaware that the data is gone, including the racks. That is not how hacking works. They just copy your data. Sort of like they stole your jewels and also left them in the safe, which is definitely a quantum/Schrodinger's cat thing, I guess.

Back when I was at Verizon and we bought Yahoo, we discovered three years after the theft that 500 million full customer details and hashed passwords had been stolen. Yes, 500 million and yes, three years later. Yahoo, by the way, had world-class cyber folks.

There are simple solutions like Arqit that really aren't that hard to do, but when limited budgets are fighting for current stuff versus that one day when quantum works problem thing, the latter loses. Except it's already happening so is it really a future worry? Full disclosure I am an advisor and an investor (money where mouth is) in Arqit.

Quantum is strange and difficult to understand. Being able to tunnel through barriers without enough energy to do so is hard to fathom. Quantum entanglement does not make any Newtonian sense and we all grow up Newtonians. Quantum doesn't seem to obey the second law of thermodynamics, so then anomalous heat flows can be used to detect quantum entanglement. I really don't understand that last sentence but I will tomorrow when I have Claude, Perplexity, and ChatGPT gang up on a Quanta Physics article and translate it into what I fondly call dummy language - you know, my language.

But that it is just weird and exotic and not here yet does not mean it hasn't already reached back from the future and robbed you...