Quantum Computing Deciphers Codes Quickly

Okay, so, it works like this: little tiny gremlins who are really good at math sit inside a box that’s supposed to be a "quantum computer," and break encrypted code really quickly. The world goes ga-ga, millions of the boxes are sold, and that’s how an entire industry of gremlin slavery gets started.

Okay, I admit it, I wrote that because I really don’t get this quantum computing stuff. It all seems like it’s going to fall apart one day when some mathematician slaps his head and say, "Guys, look, we forgot a decimal point here!" But nevertheless, at the University of Michigan, they’ve been using light pulses to make quantum computers run faster (how? gotta be a quantum scientist to know). According to the researchers, the systems would be capable of cracking "highly encrypted codes" in minutes, not years, and on the flipside creating even stronger security.

And the day of our Robotic Overlords taking over moves inexorably closer.