In today’s edition of The Edward Snowden Files, The Washington Post reports that the National Security Agency, with a plan that sounds like something Lex Luthor cooked up, is racing to build a quantum computer capable of cracking nearly every encryption system known to man.
The project is part of a nearly $80 million initiative called “Penetrating Hard Targets,” and is housed in College Park, Md.
via The NSA Is Trying to Build a Quantum Computer – The Wire.
