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And everyone thinks about real time implications, what about historical ? Seems pretty likely that the NSA has been storing an appreciable fraction of the internet for a long damn while. Come Q-Day that all gets opened and searchable. What would Trump do ?
Nothing, he will be dead. Anyone that NSA would bother to use their new and expensive quantum machines on will be an organization that should know better than to be compromised by decades old secrets getting out.
You're no fun, orange turnip was merely an example of a bad actor getting control (going Reagan would be confusingly amusing) and it's not about anyone in particular, more so the entire worlds' dirty laundry out to dry
Just because you can break RSA doesn't mean you instantly get access to all private databases.
Encryption by itself isn't important. You know all those big company data leaks that seem to happen every month? That data was very likely encrypted. But it doesn't matter because when you control a computer, you can see the encryption keys being used and decrypt whatever is stored.