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"

[–] noctivius@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago

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

[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] oyo@lemm.ee 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Quantum entanglement is different than quantum computing.

[–] oyo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 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.

[–] amon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

This is not 2015

[–] Emmie@lemm.ee -4 points 3 days ago

You sound quite miserable, maybe you should stop thinking like this