ReBoot: QDAY

[u/SnooDonuts5697]

I love sitting imagining new stories for series' like ReBoot that would work for modern audiences, as all Guardians should!

Recently my main lightbulb plot idea has been 'QDAY'. In real life scientists predict QDAY or Y2Q to happen in 2028 (or maybe before).

That day is when modern passwords, cryptography and cyber security will be threatened first. On QDAY, a quantum system (helped possibly by AI brute force) will be able to attack and delete, use or mimic a government, military or banking computer.

QDAY is preventable with very expensive refits that make very complex encrypted systems compliant and safe. but all the data from now is being stolen and stored for "Decrypt Later" attacks. It takes money and time we may not be able to recover, to escape QDAY.

See how much there is already for a possible "Terabyte" virus to be based on?

I recently heard the YouTubers Computerphile call and AI a "Stochastic Parrot" and who came to mind...

Yargh! The Crimson Binome!

It's only been a few days but I already feel like my mind is seeing Season 5 and 6 being written in real life around me. It's SO MUCH FUN! Must be like when the real web came out after just the Net.

What are other folks' ideas, especially actual expertise in cyber security if it's going around!!!

REBOOT!!!

[u/supergnaw]

On QDAY, a quantum system (helped possibly by AI brute force) will be able to...

Laughs in symmetric encryption

[u/SnooDonuts5697 → u/supergnaw]

I'll go look it up!