[Cryptography] Two physics experiment questions

[Peter Gutmann]

Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> writes:

>I've been pushing back against that where I can, because solving severe
>problems we already have is more important than solving problems we don't
>have yet nor even know when we will (including the "inevitable"
>Quantumpocalypse, but also the "inevitable" Martian Invasion, the
>"inevitable" Machine Uprising, et cetera).

Yup, and that's what the bollocks talk says (whose long-ago origins are a
Metrisec 2012 talk about the application of security metrics to vuln
management): We have multi-decade metrics showing us what the most high-
priority threats that need mitigation are, I use the OWASP top ten because
it's been going forever and most of the other things-to-worry-about lists have
the same stats.  It doesn't matter if space aliens wielding physics
experiments land in 30 years time when there are AIs looking through your
code right now and finding 0day that doesn't care which quantum fashion
statement you've decided to go with.

Peter.