David Cooper

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We often talk about quantum computers, those amazing computers that will solve all kinds of problems for us.

Companies are researching them, but Google has issued a harrowing warning.

When quantum computers become feasible, there's going to be a security apocalypse.

We'll tell you about it in a moment.

Have you heard of Q-Day?

That's the day that quantum computers become viable, feasible, used by corporations.

They become something that will be used.

Now, when that happens, all computer security as we know it will mostly break.

What does that mean?

Why will it cause a security apocalypse?

Well, that's what we're going to discuss here with Carmi Levy, a tech analyst.

It is time for technology time.

Carmi, welcome back to the show.

I feel like quantum computers has mostly been a smoke and mirrors topic.

You know, like I was in undergrad studying software engineering, what, I graduated 15, 20 years ago, something like that.

And even then it was like, oh, we're just on the brink of this thing.

Of course, every major company has a research group on it.

IBM, Google, I'm sure governments are looking into this.

But how close are we to a viable quantum computer?