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The Quantum Threat: Our Government Knows More Than

You Do

By Skip Sanzeri, COO and Founder, QuSecure, Inc.

Quantum computers are extremely powerful machines that utilize subatomic properties providing
amazing potential to change the way that we process information and to improve our world. However, in
addition to quantum computers running applications that will generate world-changing capabilities, they
will be used as weapons by our adversaries.

One such weaponization will materialize through quantum computers breaking the existing cybersecurity
the world uses today. The Department of the Defense’s (DoD) primary concern is that a weaponized
quantum computer could be used to break the encryption that protects sensitive government data and
communications. In short, quantum computers will threaten our data and privacy to the extent that this
will force the largest technology upgrade cycle in computer history.

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