DWave Quantum Computing demo

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Have been to see the future, or at least a portion thereof, of computing.  
(Possibly.)

Attended the DWave demo of their new Orion quantum processor in Vancouver.  
(Anybody attend the event in Mountain View?  Apparently video clips can already 
be found on YouTube.)  Not a replacement for digital computing, but adjunct co-
processor, allowing completely new types of applications.

Forget factoring primes of huge numbers: red herring.  (Generally, everything you 
know about quantum computing is wrong.  Not your fault: reported by science 
fiction writers who completely misunderstand the technology, and journalists who 
understand even less.)  Think biometrics, pattern recognition, risk 
assessment/management, information flow analysis, possibly secure configuration 
management.  Also think completely new information integrity problems and the 
security issues of radically new architectures.

Pattern identification alone is probably huge in security: think IDS, spam flagging, 
new botnet activity tracking, etc.

Sorry if incoherent: my head is still buzzing with a whole bunch of new stuff.  Will 
probably take a few days to come down to earth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNROICAba78
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZXwD4AZjLg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muJzZaFacKM

Most of the stuff is here:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=LUXVIBES&page=2

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Pitr:  Am to becomink half computer, half human.  Then to become
       super administrator of all [AOL] funtions.
Erwin: That means ... you'll become ...
Pitr:  Da.  I will becomink ROOT OF ALL EVIL.
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Dictionary of Information Security  www.syngress.com/catalog/?pid=4150
http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm
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