Is Digital Privacy At An End?

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If you use the Internet a lot, you've probably transmitted some pretty private information. From credit card numbers to embarrassing photos, our secrets are out there - but how safe are they from hackers and eavesdroppers? In the future, will we have to surrender our digital privacy, or are there technologies that could potentially prevent outside forces from collecting our information?

Do you think digital privacy is in our future, or will all of our secrets be laid out bare to everyone? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
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I just do not understand how you only have 35k subs, it makes no sense! your content is incredible!

MrTBR

Quantum cryptography plays in my head like a sit-com sketch:

Kid: "OK, and in case I need to message you from school, here's my private key. DAD! WTF?! Don't *look* at it! It's a quantum key. You observe it, you broke it! " (sighs, exasperated) "Fine. I'll send it again."

Father (aside to Mother): "I think this is karma for all the times we were impatient with *our* parents for not understanding computers."

Charles-igfr

Certainly I feel there is no such thing as digital privacy.
The information is out there and stays out there ....deleting doesn't mean a thing.

anniemoonmaid

Nice graphics, very close to accurate and a good simplification of the topic! Nice work!

bisschops

Quantum computing blows my mind from the small bit I've read on it.

KyleKraus

The problem with the photon state communication is that any message send need to be read multiple times and be reconstructed to be send to the right location
so this superstate method would only work on a direct connection and thats not a possability for a network like the internet

ShynRou

I would say that the future of privacy can go either way. It all depends on what we as a society do to secure our futures. There are people out there who would rather have less privacy, mostly for the sake of marketing or other such things (think Facebook). No matter what cryptography solution is used, there will always be users who are either naïve, or don't think they're ever going to get hacked.

cdmoomaw

think of it in this way. if our privacy was revealed hackers would go against hackers and expose them as well. as the saying goes... what comes around goes around. any one and every one would be exposed.

knownasgeeks

Why doesn't the quantum key change when it's viewed by the recipient? Why does it only change when someone is eavesdropping?

laughattack

Something I notice with quantum internet propositions is that its always 1 to 1. Which isn't really an internet, just a single connection. Could you make the entirety of the internet quantum secure? You would have too in order to make the internet secure at all wouldn't you? I don't see ISP's doing this.

And what about accessing public stuff that you'd rather not be tracked accessing, or even the administrators of a 'quantum server'. Can you be secure against THEM? If someone obtains physical control of a server I'm accessing and I have an account of some sort with that server, would there be a way of 100% securing my identity from the rogue agents using quantum cryptography?

Security is a complex and interesting topic. Its too bad most people don't seem to think about these things.

WarpScanner

Quantum computing is no where near a viable option...in fact some people even speculate its existence. Digital privacy is at an end, not because of the NSA, but because every system is breakable. That's IT 101 baby.

KFuzze

umm hackers and eavesdroppers do face serious prison time if caught while government doesn't when they do it

KILLKING

How about biocrypting or physical protection? Like if I wanna keep my flashcard data save I can destroy the card physically by launching chemical reactions if someone tries to hack it?

eugenebulyatkin

classical computer
true and false or 1 and 0

quantum computer?

CariagaXIII

Hey, do you think within then my lifetime (next 50+plus years) everyone will have quantum computers? Could technology be at that level in my lifetime?

iOddWorId