Imminent Breach Of US, Global Secrets Likely, Experts Warn
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
WASHINGTON (Worthy News) – Cybersecurity experts and the United States Department of Defense have reportedly discussed tackling the imminent breach of America’s and potentially everyone’s deepest secrets.
Tilo Kunz, the executive vice president of Canadian cybersecurity firm Quantum Defen5e (QD5), told officials from the Defense Information Systems Agency that likely as soon as 2025, the world would see “Q-day,” according to sources familiar with the talks.
Q-day was named after quantum computers, making current encryption methods useless.
Machines vastly more powerful than today’s fastest supercomputers would be capable of cracking the codes that protect virtually all modern communication, he told the agency, which is tasked with safeguarding the U.S. military’s communications.
Kunz told the panel, “a global effort to plunder data is underway so that intercepted messages” can be decoded after Q-day in what he described as “harvest now, decrypt later” attacks, showed a recording of the session.
Militaries would see their long-term plans and intelligence gathering exposed to enemies. Businesses could have their intellectual property swiped. People’s health records would be laid bare, Reuters news agency reported.
“We are not the only ones who are harvesting; we are not the only ones hoping to decrypt that in the future,” Kunz stressed without naming names. “Everything that gets sent over public networks is at risk.”
MAJOR POWERS
Cyber experts believe all major powers are collecting data ahead of Q-day, including the United States and China, the world’s leading military powers. Both nations are accusing each other of data harvesting on a grand scale.
The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Christopher Wray, said in September that China had “a bigger hacking program than every other major nation combined.”
In a September report, China’s chief civilian intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security, accused the U.S. National Security Agency of “systematic” attacks to steal Chinese data.
It is unclear who might become the first nation to be able to crack all computer networks, as the United States and China are considered the leaders in the field.
Yet Reuters quoted experts as believing that America “still holds an edge.”
Yet, with countries such as China and Russia vastly developing, a global cyber war seems closer than ever, experts suggest.
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