Recently I watched a movie about quantum computing. The movie brought up some awesome points about the true and present future of computing.
First, Quantum computers are not mainstream by any means so without millions of dollars and someone with a Ph.D. to run it, its difficult to get your hands on one. The computers do not process information the same way a computer does. Instead, they can analyze millions of calculations at one time using a computational unit called a qubit. Each qubit increases the computational capacity of the computer by a factor of 2. Qubits are powerful and let's just say that normal computers are light years behind in processing.
The real reason why I decided this information is important is that using the current encryption methods the passing of information over the internet is hackable with quantum computers. A normal computer would take until the end of time to decipher the partial prime numbers used to encrypt the data. However, quantum computers can determine the primes used to encrypt data sent over the internet in a matter of days.
Essentially quantum computers are the ultimate weapon for gathering data of all kinds...!
I found a link that supports what I have to say that was written by MIT even though this is old info. Here's link. Heres the mit link
As always thanks for reading.
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