Owning the Net

BRT has written several articles about Quantum Computers, the tech that will change everything relating to all things digital as said tech can actually replicate reality, an absolutely astounding fact that apparently escapes the NSA's concept of why such a system should be built as they intend to create one to, you guessed it, crack even more encryption codes in order to siphon in even more data but this time, without the limitations inherent to today's serial based computing technology.

In room-size metal boxes ­secure against electromagnetic leaks, the National Security Agency is racing to build a computer that could break nearly every kind of encryption used to protect banking, medical, business and government records around the world.

According to documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the effort to build “a cryptologically useful quantum computer” — a machine exponentially faster than classical computers — is part of a $79.7 million research program titled “Penetrating Hard Targets.” Much of the work is hosted under classified contracts at a laboratory in College Park, Md.

In essence, the NSA's push to building a QC is all about Owning the Net.