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Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over Internet For The First Time (www.sciencealert.com)

submitted 2 months ago by ploot to c/science@lemmy.world

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[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

Someone smarter than me, please go ahead and explain how this is going to be used to make life worse for all of us, probably in a deeply disturbing political reality that screams "the world Quinn from Sliders slid into and had to jump early because fuck this timeline"

[-] ploot 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It could actually be a good thing, since it opens up the possibility of unsnoopable channels of communication, using encryption that would be disrupted by any attempt to intercept it.

[-] oyo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Also the ability to crack any of our current encryption almost instantly...

[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

Quantum entanglement is different than quantum computing.

[-] oyo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Not exactly; entanglement is a critical element of quantum computing for the encryption and decryption referenced.

[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Not what I understand. The encryption referenced is about having an immutably certain shared data source from entanglement that can be used as encryption/decryption input. Quantum computing does promise to crack current encryption technology in the future.