> If quantum computers start breaking things, people will transition to more secure systems.
that's not really the issue, the real interesting part is existing encrypted information that three letter agencies likely have dutifully stored in a vault and that's going to become readable. A lot of that communication was made under the assumption that it's secure.
Yeah, all the encrypted messages collected when illegal markets got seized will be decrypted. Many of them uses RSA 2048 so by 2030 its gonna be broken according to the timelines.
Its actually something we will notice. Arrests will be announced.
that's not really the issue, the real interesting part is existing encrypted information that three letter agencies likely have dutifully stored in a vault and that's going to become readable. A lot of that communication was made under the assumption that it's secure.