I saw a veritasium video recently making the argument that criminals and other such malicious actors with access to large quantum computers is already a problem, because even though they don’t have the computers yet, they can collect data now that’s still encrypted in ways that quantum computers can break, to be decrypted when they have them, and that some of that data will represent things that change infrequently enough for it to still be useful to them when that happens.
I saw a veritasium video recently making the argument that criminals and other such malicious actors with access to large quantum computers is already a problem, because even though they don’t have the computers yet, they can collect data now that’s still encrypted in ways that quantum computers can break, to be decrypted when they have them, and that some of that data will represent things that change infrequently enough for it to still be useful to them when that happens.