this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I would be interested to hear your reasoning and facts to support this assertion.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

There's not significant usable quantum computer "hardware"/"power" in existence. It's still largely a theoretical thing (although we are getting much closer lately).

The most likely use for it while capacity is limited (assuming they secretly have enough to do anything with) would be for espionage: cracking many defacto standard encryption algorithms that are in use the world over.

On top of all that, Betteridge's law.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

His IQ is higher than 1.