The Friday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Friday, Sept. 23
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CANADA’S TOP CYBERSPY HAS OMINOUS WARNING FOR CONSUMERS: The head of Canada’s cyberspy agency, the Communications Security Establishment, is warning that hackers can one day crack the encryption people rely on for secure online banking and shopping. Greta Bossenmaier, head of the Communications Security Establishment, says advances in quantum computing could open the door to breaking these protections within 10 years. Bossenmaier told an Ottawa conference that the immense processing power of quantum computing will bring tremendous opportunities for science, medicine and engineering. But she cautions it could also hobble today’s encryption methods of shielding sensitive data from prying eyes.
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