Quantum computing --- Here's my scenario: in the future, maybe ten or so years from now, there will be a slight increase in credit card frauds. Just small enough that no one notices, but it will keep growing and no one will be able to tell where it's coming from. Then, in the middle of an otherwise regular day, an unprecedented wave of credit card and bank fraud will leave the whole economic system in shambles. The truth will then come out: multiple criminal organisations are now in possession of quantum computers and have trivialized encryption and password protection worldwide. Governments and the private sector will try to contain the damage, revert these transactions... But they'll realize they are now locked out of their own systems, as the hackers now own the keys to the house -- or all the houses.

Source author: Gustavo Paiva gdp.direito@gmail.com