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I came across this while surfing the interwebz of yahoo, im not incredibly techsavy and was wondering if this is an actual possibility of happeneing, i think it would be an interesting topic for a future WAN show

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Time to get my tinfoil hat on.

 

1) So we definitely need more security, more prowerful, more complex, check Logan's The Tek, his a specialist in this thing, bring them 10 kb SSL!!!

2) Quanum computing. If we can reach quantum computing before this happens (although I doubt we will), there's this statement that says that evesdroping an entangled particle is nearly imposible as that affects directly the behavior of the particle on itself "The observer affects the experiment" taken to the limit. Nature is the most powerful encryption of them all

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The Internet is a very wonderful thing. If only the bad ones wouldn't bring it down, they will ruin it for everyone:(

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