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The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid
What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.

One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin: the sudden unlocking of the world’s secrets. Your secrets.

Cybersecurity analysts call this Q-Day—the day someone builds a quantum computer that can crack the most widely used forms of encryption. These math problems have kept humanity’s intimate data safe for decades, but on Q-Day, everything could become vulnerable, for everyone: emails, text messages, anonymous posts, location histories, bitcoin wallets, police reports, hospital records, power stations, the entire global financial system.

“We’re kind of playing Russian roulette,” says Michele Mosca, who coauthored the most recent “Quantum Threat Timeline” report from the Global Risk Institute, which estimates how long we have left. “You’ll probably win if you only play once, but it’s not a good game to play.” When Mosca and his colleagues surveyed cybersecurity experts last year, the forecast was sobering: a one-in-three chance that Q-Day happens before 2035. And the chances it has already happened in secret? Some people I spoke to estimated 15 percent—about the same as you’d get from one spin of the revolver cylinder.

More:
https://www.wired.com/story/q-day-apocalypse-quantum-computers-encryption/

@dirtdude said:
I used to pass 15 trucks loaded with Ford Broncos on the 30 mile run to Nogales. They were coming up from a big plant at Hermasillo. No trucks coming up anymore.

Maybe everyone figured out that they didn't want to buy a bronco because they're not Mopars?

@Rdp77 said:

@Devildog1 said:

@Rdp77 said:

@Devildog1 said:
This was dinner last night.

This years??

Yeah, I cheated thought, had to buy them online. Live to close to the coast here to find them.

Are they as good? They’re already starting to pop up here…

I didn’t notice any difference in taste or texture, they were smaller than what I was used to finding when I lived in Illinois and Missouri.
What part of the country you live in?

it's for storing excess wind or solar electricity

I used to pass 15 trucks loaded with Ford Broncos on the 30 mile run to Nogales. They were coming up from a big plant at Hermasillo. No trucks coming up anymore.

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/denmark-salt-battery-could-power-100000-homes?group=test_b

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@VegasFrank said:
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All majors require algebra.

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Even gender studies?

You just need to know how to multiply.

You need to know something about imaginary numbers, too.