Crossed Wires: The quantum threat to encryption is real, but you can sleep easy

Daily Maverick | 16.03.2026 03:42
The media loves a good scare story. So, apparently, do we. So when a press release from a new organisation called the Advanced Quantum Technologies Institute went out via PRNewswire on 2 March under the headline, Cybersecurity Apocalypse in 2026, the media gobbled the bait.