A quantum computing deadline looms:

[Bobby]

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/17/scie ... rity-q-day

A quantum computing deadline looms.
It threatens to kick off the biggest cybersecurity crisis ever

May 17, 2026


The clock is ticking on Q-Day, the looming yet unknown date when quantum computing will have the capacity to quickly and easily break the encryption keys that keep most internet communication safe.

Experts have known about the hypothetical risk of Q-Day since the 1990s. But Google recently warned that quantum computers may be able to hack some encrypted systems by 2029 — a timeline that drastically narrows the window to safeguard data that many cybersecurity specialists had previously predicted. The new estimate means that governments, companies and other entities may have far less time to prepare.

“It’s the day when people, perhaps adversaries, will have access to a quantum computer that can break cryptographic codes that are in use,” said Michele Mosca, cofounder and CEO of cybersecurity company evolutionQ.

Q-Day marks the moment a quantum computer gains enough resources and stability to crack conventional crytopgraphy. When that happens, every financial transaction, medical file, email, location history and crypto wallet protected by today’s commonly used algorithms could be unlocked by a machine capable of solving the complex math that currently keeps sensitive data secure.

At that game-changing turning point, “everything’s safe — safe, safe — and then suddenly it’s not safe. It’s a very drastic jump,” said Mosca, who is also a professor at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.

Adversaries and bad actors may already be collecting encrypted data, with the intention of launching “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks. In this scenario, information is stolen, stored and then decrypted when a full-scale quantum computer is available, he added.

[Bobby]

There goes all our privacy and security.

[mellie]

There goes all our privacy and security.

Or as with Y2K, will thousands of IT professionals spend billions of dollars fixing it first?

Have faith bobstar, remember both AI and QC are both emerging fields set to complement and resolve eachothers problems.

It's way above my own unqualified opinion, however I have forwarded this question of yours to someone dear to my heart, my son.

I should be interested to know myself what he thinks will happen.



I also sent this question to my dad, who knows a thing or two about this sort of thing too.

[mellie]

Ok Bobby, you have officially got me into strife with my son who genuinely knows exactly what he's talking about re- cyber security.

This is his response when I asked him what you asked here....


"CNN isn't real news. What has gotten into you? I thought you were more intelligent
We never had privacy and security , the NSA has had backdoors in everything since the 1940s , this is well known. "- by son


Thanks for this Bobstar, now my son thinks I've had a stroke.

[Bobby]

Ok Bobby, you have officially got me into strife with my son who genuinely knows exactly what he's talking about re- cyber security.

This is his response when I asked him what you asked here....


"CNN isn't real news. What has gotten into you? I thought you were more intelligent
We never had privacy and security , the NSA has had backdoors in everything since the 1940s , this is well known. "- by son


Thanks for this Bobstar, now my son thinks I've had a stroke.

You are welcome.

one such as I am
exposes the darkness without permission
or approval yes this work is not for the faint
hearted beloved ones ... and this is why and
from the energy in which I emanate in whom I am
as a humble servant in the divine
and sacred LIGHT as we continue
to monitor all thoughts, words
and deeds, and so it is

namaste

[Bobby]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have estimated Bitcoin's encryption will be broken this side of 2028. Based on the speed of growth in quantum computing.

Q day will likely pass with the majority not realising, yet the ramifications will appear months and years afterwards.

Once Bitcoin is broken, miners will likely see the Bitcoin they just mined, disappear from their wallets. This sort of stuff.

Breaking most other encryption will probably occur a year after Bitcoin's.



It's very scary.
Get rid of Bitcoin before it's all stolen.

[Super Nova]

Hi all, have been working in Saudi so do not post anything anywhere.

I do not believe we are close to it being useful on Quantum computing as reported. A lot of money is going into it so that may speed it up.

And I agree, we don;t have the level of security protection we think we have.

[Black Orchid]

Hi all, have been working in Saudi so do not post anything anywhere.

I do not believe we are close to it being useful on Quantum computing as reported. A lot of money is going into it so that may speed it up.

And I agree, we don;t have the level of security protection we think we have.

Hi SN. LTNS.

[Bobby]

Hi all, have been working in Saudi so do not post anything anywhere.

I do not believe we are close to it being useful on Quantum computing as reported. A lot of money is going into it so that may speed it up.

And I agree, we don;t have the level of security protection we think we have.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4p7gyvp52o

Microsoft says new quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable than predecessor

3 hours ago


Microsoft says its new quantum chip is vastly more reliable than its previous version, paving the way for a quantum computer solving commercially useful problems within three years.

At the heart of quantum computing are qubits, which offer the promise of answering questions that defeat today's machines, but are notoriously delicate and unstable.

Microsoft says the qubits on Majorana 2, its new chip, survive for an average of 20 seconds, rather than the milliseconds of Majorana 1.

That means the new chip is 1,000 times more reliable - an improvement in performance the tech giant compares to the difference between a phone that needs charging every day to one which needs charging every few years.

"We will have a quantum machine in 2029 that can solve commercially viable, reasonable problems", said Zulfi Alam, corporate vice president of Microsoft Quantum.

That would still require huge further advances as such a device would require millions of qubits - the current chip, Alam said, has 12.

Assessing the firm's claims are difficult because it does not release the full details of what it has discovered publicly, citing commercial confidentiality.

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