When you hear words like “quantum-mechanical wiretap” it either goes over your head or you think “What’s that about then”.

Well a simulation has proven that it is very possible to eavesdrop on super-secure encrypted messages which were thought to be nearly 100% uncrackable (guess my security is back to passwords then, what password next and I wonder what’s common).

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge has a team of researchers that have hacked into a network protected by quantum encryption (this has happened for the first time).

Using the laws of quantum mechanics to encode data securely, quantum cryptography was thought to be uncrackable and secure but I guess all things can be undone and it’s just finding out how.
Via nature.com