Quantum Computing
18 episodes
#6350: Why Modern SSH Keys Cannot Fix Harvested Traffic
Upgrading your user key to Ed25519 authenticates you cleanly, but it leaves recorded traffic vulnerable to future key-exchange attacks.
#6152: Whatever Happened to the One-Time Pad?
The math is unbreakable. The humans are the problem. Tracing the one-time pad from 1882 codebooks to quantum key distribution.
#5749: From Sand to Trillion-Dollar Chips: Semiconductors in 5 Levels
A bad conductor and a bad insulator — and the most important material in civilization. Semiconductors explained in five escalating levels.
#2840: How Long Must a Password Actually Be?
The surprising math behind how long your password needs to be to survive a brute-force attack.
#2482: When AI Chatbots Leak Your PDFs via Public S3 Buckets
A user uploaded a sensitive PDF to an AI chatbot. The chatbot stored it in a public S3 bucket with zero authentication.
#2416: Ghost Murmur: Heartbeat Detection or Disinformation?
Did the CIA locate an airman by his heartbeat from 40 miles away? We examine the physics and the story.
#2226: When Quantum Breaks Everything
Quantum computers will shatter RSA and elliptic-curve encryption—but the real danger is data being stolen and stored right now, waiting to be decry...
#2088: Quantum's First Real Benchmarks Are Here
From drug discovery to logistics, quantum computing is finally delivering measurable speedups over classical systems.
#1991: Why 20 Clean Qubits Beat 1000 Noisy Ones
Israel just unveiled its first 20-qubit superconducting quantum computer, and it's not about size—it's about precision and control.
#1822: Quantum in the Cloud: Hype vs. Hardware
Is QCaaS a billion-dollar breakthrough or an expensive science experiment? We explore the gap between hype and hardware.
#1821: The Quantum Computer That Doesn't Compute
Crack open a quantum computer and you won't find a CPU—just a gold-plated chandelier inside a giant white thermos.
#943: Unbreakable: One-Time Pads and the Mystery of V-32
Discover why the one-time pad is the only unbreakable code and go inside the eerie world of shortwave number station V-32.
#650: When AI Thinks Longer, Not Bigger
Explore how Gemini 3.0’s Deep Think mode shifts AI from "fast" reflexes to "deliberate" reasoning to solve complex quantum physics problems.
#466: Inside the Silence: The Engineering of Modern SCIFs
Explore the physics of high-tech fortresses as Herman and Corn dive into the engineering, history, and future of modern SCIFs.
#253: The Quantum-Resistant Mirage
Explore the shift to post-quantum encryption and why intelligence agencies rarely need to "break" the math to access your private data.
#214: When Encryption Meets the Ocean Floor
Think the internet is in the cloud? Think again. We explore the 1.4 million kilometers of undersea cables and the global race to protect—or tap—them.
#175: Beyond the Hype: The Real State of Quantum Computing
Forget Quantum MacBooks. Herman and Corn dive into the move toward logical qubits and why the future of quantum lives in the cloud.
#133: When Quantum Computing Becomes Accessible
Discover how quantum computing is transforming AI from brute-force scaling to surgical precision in this deep dive into the 2026 tech landscape.