A early day, At a research laboratory near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the mountains of China, it will start: suddenly unlocking the secrets of the world. Your secret.
Cyber security analysts call this day q-day, someday someone built Number of computers Can crack the most widely used encryption forms. These mathematical issues have kept the intimate data of mankind for decades, but on the day Q, everything can become vulnerable, for everyone: email, text message, anonymous post, position history, Bitcoin wallet, police report, hospital records, electric stations, the entire global financial system.
We are playing Russian Roulette, he said, Michele Mosca, co -author Global Risk InstituteIt is estimated how long we have left. “You will maybe The victory if you only play once, but that's not a good game to play. When Mosca and his colleagues surveyed cybersecurity experts last year, it was forecast to be awake: one chance one of three days occurred before 2035. Satisfied Has occurred in secret? Some people I told an estimated 15 percent, just like you received a rotation of a pistol cylinder.
The company's AI battles may have stolen titles in recent years, but the quantum arms race has also heated up. In which one today pushes the limits of classical computing, the type of operation on technology 0s and 1s, representing one Absolutely different in the form of computing. By exploiting the ghostly mechanisms of the atomic world, it can run on 0s, 1s or anything in the middle. This makes quantum computers quite terrible, speaking, storing data but has the ability to be very good at finding the formula for a new future document (or your email password). The classic machine resigns a life calculation step by step: try a set of components, fail, eliminate everything, try again. But quantum computers can explore many potential recipes simultaneously.
Therefore, naturally, technology giants like Google, Huawei, IBM and Microsoft have pursued countless positive applications of Quantum not only for material science but also for media, drug development and market analysis. China is plowing large resources The efforts are supported by the StateAnd both the United States and the European Union have committed to sponsor millions of dollars to support the family quantum industry. Of course, anyone who wins the race will not have the next big engine of the world saving innovation. They will also have the largest code breaker in history. So, it's normal to wonder: Which type of Q-day will receive and what we can do to prepare?
If you already have a universal picklock, you can tell people or you can hold it in your pocket as long as you can. From the favorable point of a typical person, perhaps Q-day will not be recognized as Q-day. Perhaps it will look like a series of strange news stories and does not seem to be connected for months or years. London's energy net goes down on the election day, pushing the city into the darkness. A US submarine on a secret mission appears to find itself surrounded by enemy ships. The embarrassing document began to appear online in larger and larger quantities: the intelligence cable was classified and covered by the president, the dumb image of the billionaire. In this scenario, maybe decades before we can determine exactly when Q-Day actually happens.
After that, again, it could be the holder of Universal Picklock liked the results of the disaster: everything, anywhere, all at the same time. Destroy the net. Turn off the missile silo. Defeat the banking system. Open all the doors and let the secrets go out.