I’ve been really getting into the world of Quantum computing. It looks like the Information Age is TRULY in its infancy. Quantum computing which scientist are now predicting will be available by around 2020 will be one of many systems that change everything about the human species. It is an exciting time to be alive for certain:
Seth Loyd
What is ridiculous about these systems is that they will be so powerfull that they will be able to break AES, DES, 3DES and other cryptological methods that are based on “difficult math” such as factoring prime numbers. Once quantum computers get going, Internet encryption will be irrelevant. That means credit card, bank and any thing with classical encryption will no longer be safe because quantum computers will be sniff out all the encrypted traffic (this is already doable) and then crack the encrypted data with something like a quantum L0ptCrack.