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Jay Novella

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
399 total appearances

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

I mean, what they do is irrelevant.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

It's almost irrelevant.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

Like quantum computers have raised that spectrum for years now.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

But we've been prepared for that and been thinking about that.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

And there are things that you can do now with your classical computers to safeguard them against quantum computers wreaking havoc on your encryption.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

But this is something that could affect not the super encrypted secret data, but every computer system on the planet could be impacted.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

We're going to be hearing a couple of words more in the near future, and those two words are air-gapped.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

And then, of course, that reminds me of the book I read years ago, Robo-pocalypse, where an AI was so clever it got around air capping in some freaky cool way.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

Like, oh, man.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

I'm thinking, what's the cool side to this?

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

This is powerful hacking, but how is it powerful in other ways that could be dramatic, dramatically awesome?

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

And Steve, what's the government angle here?

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

Because they need to secure their stuff, but maybe even more so than securing my personal computer type stuff.

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics Guide #1084 - Apr 18 2026

I mean, they have access to computer access to reactors and water filtration and all this huge things.