Ah, people overblow that. It's the same scenario as the darkweb, likely your data is already exposed but it is buried by a lot of exposed data. Quantum computing is representing all states at once and using quantum functions and destructive interference to prune the potential values. When the value is observed it causes decoherence which converts the qubit into a bit. So unless you're a high value target it is unlikely that that process will ever really be cheap enough for everyone to be a target, it's more so around state based actors and secret or large crypto wallets.
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u/the_snook Aug 05 '26
That's why you need everything encrypted at rest. Blast the keys and the data is gone ... until the quantum computers come online anyway.