As quantum computers advance, encryption methods will need to keep up

Imagine the tap of a card that bought you a cup of coffee this morning also let a hacker halfway across the world access your bank account and buy themselves whatever they liked. Now imagine it wasn't a one-off glitch, but it happened all the time: imagine the locks that secure our electronic data suddenly stopped working.

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