I’m not a I’m not a quantum physicist, nor a computer scientist. But Microsoft released this video a few months ago which sparked a thought.
While they were quick to point out the obvious benefits of “teleporting” the quantum state, i.e. the computational results, from one pair of entangled qubits to another.
This quickly begged the question: given the hyper-advanced nature of supply chain attacks (see Israel planting explosives in the pagers of Hezbollah operatives, recently), could a nation-state simply take entangled qubits of an adversary’s quantum computer and see what it is they are working on at any given time? Further, could communications networks be compromised for real time ‘eavesdropping,’ so to speak? Perhaps not even internationally, but perhaps in an intelligence gathering platform akin to the NSA’s own PRISM program? If there is, according to some theories, no limit to the number of particles that share an entangled state, nobody would know if you simply “cloned” a few more, right?
Am I understanding that well enough? Or would it not be the Qubits that become entangled, and only the ‘data’ that flows through them?
I’m not the person to write the research paper on this topic. But I certainly hope someone out there will produce it – because I would love to read through it. Just an interesting thought I had with an eye on the future.
