The Race Against Three Clocks
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One of the more unsettling aspects of quantum risk is that it gives you no signal. No incident opens a ticket. No alert fires. The threat is purely mathematical: at some point, probably within the next decade, a machine will exist that can undo the cryptography protecting most of the world’s encrypted data. The only question that matters is whether you will have finished preparing by the time it arrives.