[fishsticks89]

An idea is that nations are storing the encrypted packets now to decrypt them once they have access to a number of sufficiently fast quantum computers (store/harvest now decrypt later). This assumes the data will still be useful in the future.

[aunty_helen]

Preposterous. You would need massive data centers to do that…

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