A quantum security leap?

The lesson coming out of all this would appear to be, then, that people who actually care about security can't rely on approaches whose failure modes are not well understood.

Which leads nicely onto the small matter of scientists, and the media of course, throwing around the word 'unbreakable' in the context of a security technology. Now that always sets the alarm bells ringing in my head where, over the course of the last 20 years, the message that there is no such thing as 100 per cent secure has been engraved onto my brain.

Davey Winder

Davey is a three-decade veteran technology journalist specialising in cybersecurity and privacy matters and has been a Contributing Editor at PC Pro magazine since the first issue was published in 1994. He's also a Senior Contributor at Forbes, and co-founder of the Forbes Straight Talking Cyber video project that won the ‘Most Educational Content’ category at the 2021 European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards.

Davey has also picked up many other awards over the years, including the Security Serious ‘Cyber Writer of the Year’ title in 2020. As well as being the only three-time winner of the BT Security Journalist of the Year award (2006, 2008, 2010) Davey was also named BT Technology Journalist of the Year in 1996 for a forward-looking feature in PC Pro Magazine called ‘Threats to the Internet.’ In 2011 he was honoured with the Enigma Award for a lifetime contribution to IT security journalism which, thankfully, didn’t end his ongoing contributions - or his life for that matter.

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