Carmi Levy

But if they just stored it, when quantum computers break all encryption, they'll be able to decrypt your previous messages.

Oh, yeah.

Why am I scared of this?

Like, what if someone is just logging all your bank transactions or logging every password attempt you make on the Internet?

Yes, that data is encrypted.

But if they just have it and store it five years from now, well, Google saying up to three years from now, if this technology exists, they can then see everything you ever did securely.

Yeah.

It's like your past safety is gone.

And that's kind of a freaky prospect.

Yeah, and not to freak anyone out, but you know, how many data breaches are there?

How much exposure is there just because we're oversharing online and all that information is being harvested, scraped, and then stored somewhere, probably somewhere on the dark web, and it keeps getting added to on an almost daily basis.

and to be used for some theoretical future day when the technology is available to do more with it.

We're seeing that with AI now, that different data sets that are recorded from disparate sources, AI is able to consolidate them so that your password from one breach and your address from another and a few other little data points that can get you into trouble, your bank account number from a third breach,

that AI is able to reach out at scale, pull all those together and give the tools to a cyber criminal to, you know, target you with a pretty scary cyber attack.

And so quantum essentially puts these even more powerful tools in the hands of what we like to call malevolent actors.

And it means that we'll be less secure in that future, unless, of course, some new technologies come along or are developed that allow, you know, better forms of protection that

know maybe it won't even be encryption maybe it'll be something else but because we don't see that now it's really scary and all the all the secure communication we've done as a society to date has been using encryption methods that quantum can usually break and so yeah like government secrets that got transmitted securely as long as someone recorded them save them on disk or whatever even though they can't read them in some near future if quantum becomes feasible and it looks like it's going to be

those communications could become broken.

So I wonder what secrets we'll learn about from the 90s, the early 2000s, the early 2010s, because somebody recorded an encrypted conversation, an encrypted transmission, and yes, they couldn't decrypt it, they couldn't read it at the time, but they'll be able to read it when quantum computers become feasible.

Yeah, it's just kind of a weird, it's a weird thing that might happen and something to be aware of.