One day soon, In the research laboratory near Santa Barbara or Seattle or in a secret facility in the Chinese mountains: sudden unlocking of world secrets. Your secrets.
Cyber security analysts call this Q-Day-on day on which someone builds a quantum computer, which can break the most used forms of encryption. These mathematical problems have ensured the security of human intimate data for decades, but in Q-Day everything can become defenseless, for all: emails, text messages, anonymous posts, location stories, bitcoin portfolios, police reports, hospital entries, energy stations, the entire global financial system.
“In a sense, we play Russian roulette,” says Michele Mosca, who co -author of the latest report “Quantum Hangage Time” with Global Risk Institutewho estimates how long we stayed. “You will probably Win if you play only once, but it’s not a good game. “When last year Mosca and his colleagues surveyed cyber security experts, the forecast was sobering: a chance for one in three that Q-Day would take place before 2035. Already It happened secret? Some people I spoke to are estimated at 15 percent – the same as from one turn of the revolver cylinder.
In recent years, the corporate wars AI have been able to steal headers, but the quantum arms race also warms up. Where today’s artificial intelligence exceeds the boundaries of classic processing – a type that works on 0 and 1S – Quantum technology represents a completely different form of processing. Using the ghostly mechanics of the subatomic world, it can act on 0, 1S or anything in between. This makes quantum computers quite terrible in storing data, but potentially very good in finding a recipe for a modern material (or e -mail password). The classic machine is doomed to a step -like calculation period: try one set of ingredients, fall, scrap everything, try again. But quantum computers can examine many potential recipes simultaneously.
So, of course, technological giants, such as Google, Huawei, IBM and Microsoft, pursue countless positive applications of Quantum – not only in the case of materials, but also communication, drug development and market analysis. China sticks huge resources Efforts supported by the stateBoth the US and the European Union promised millions of financing for supporting home quantum industries. Of course, whoever wins the race will not have another great engine saving the world of innovation. They will also have the largest code to break the code in history. So I wonder what kind of Q-Day will get humanity-and is there anything that we can do to prepare?
On the other hand, maybe the owner of the universal Picklock prefers the result of the disaster movement: everything, everywhere, at the same time. Destroy the net. Turn off the rocket silos. Remove the banking system. Open all doors and release secrets.