• Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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    6 days ago

    Someone smarter than me, please go ahead and explain how this is going to be used to make life worse for all of us, probably in a deeply disturbing political reality that screams “the world Quinn from Sliders slid into and had to jump early because fuck this timeline”

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      6 days ago

      Monkeys learned to send signals faster. Now monkeys can bomb other monkeys they don’t like faster.

    • ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      6 days ago

      It could actually be a good thing, since it opens up the possibility of unsnoopable channels of communication, using encryption that would be disrupted by any attempt to intercept it.

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        6 days ago

        Also the ability to crack any of our current encryption almost instantly…

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            4 days ago

            Not exactly; entanglement is a critical element of quantum computing for the encryption and decryption referenced.

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              4 days ago

              Not what I understand. The encryption referenced is about having an immutably certain shared data source from entanglement that can be used as encryption/decryption input. Quantum computing does promise to crack current encryption technology in the future.