Apple’s New Fight Against Quantum Computers

Do you think the wide-spread use of quantum computers is just around the corner? Apple sure does and is releasing an upgrade to prevent message decryptions by the computing giants.

Even though Apple has commented that none of their encryption methods have been breached thus yet, the lingering threat and quick rise of quantum computers could seriously put their communications at risk.

According to Apple, their general algorithm is not going to be replaced per se; but, instead, they will “rebuild the iMessage cryptographic protocol” from the ground up. The new protocol is called “PQ3”, and uses a series of safeguards, partially dissimilar to their old techniques.

The Infamous Q-Day Scenario

Could you imagine all your information being leaked within a day? Your bank account drained overnight, and innumerable digital electronics being hacked? Sounds scary, and it’s a potential reality that may come as soon as 2025.

Governments around the world (China and the U.S. in particular) are prepping for such a dire scenario: one dubbed “Q-Day”, in which quantum computers are able to break most established encryptions.

The theoretical data judgment day is, at present, only speculative, but most cybersecurity experts agree that it will, in fact, happen; according to them, it’s only a matter of when. Some give a conservative estimate of 2025, whilst others hypothesize the event another thirty or forty years down the road.

No matter when (or even if) it happens, what’s certain is that we are grossly ill-prepared and, if encryption changes aren’t revolutionized soon, the digital end times may be at hand.

Did The New York Times Just Hack ChatGPT?

In a recent alleged scandal, The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT’s producer, OpenAI, (along with Microsoft) for billions of dollars, claiming the software had been stealing the newspaper’s articles for training last December.

Conversely, lawyers of OpenAI claimed in court that NYT intentionally exploited a bug in ChatGPT to purposely produce their own articles and assert copyright infringement. On Monday, they asked a federal judge to dismiss the NYT lawsuit.

The motion stated, “They were able to do so only by targeting a bug (which OpenAI has committed to addressing) by using deceptive prompts that blatantly violate OpenAI’s terms of use.” 

As some of the conduct occurred over three years ago, OpenAI is asking for immediate dismissal of those charges, as they are beyond a time limitation for charges.

The case remains open.

In the meantime, OpenAI is working diligently to fix bugs in their system and prevent their AI from outputting incorrect answers or unremarkable data.

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