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bigiaintoday at 5:58 AM0 repliesview on HN

> if you believe quantum computing will ever happen.

... and you don't believe that everything will be totally fucked when it does happen.

If there is a global passive observer, and they get quantum computing, a huge amount of supposedly encrypted private information just got popped. Whether or not I care about my dinky little private social network posts when every ssl/tls connection I've ever made is being cracked and data mined is an interesting question.