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In reply to the discussion: Wikileaks Just Released A Massive 'Insurance' File That No One Can Open [View all]greiner3
(5,214 posts)This is assuming the US government has no faster computers.
Could it be the NSA secretly has one with say double, triple or more computing power and that makes makes Moore's Law 6, or more years head start of any other entity; given the possibility China also does not have such a similar secret computer.
Also, quantum based computers, in their infant stages now, will make Moore's Law obsolete.
These computers use 'qubits' which are comparable to bits.
It is thought a 512 qubit computer will be 10 billion times faster than what was one of the faster CPUs only a few years ago.
From 'Roses Law';
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/01/dwave-systems-512-qubits-projected-to.html
A computer using 2,000 qubits will be able to 'solve problems that would take classical computers longer than the age of the universe.
Moore's Law 'out the window'.