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Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers (www.newscientist.com)
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[–] repungnant_canary 5 points 4 months ago

Drives are usually encrypted with symmetric ciphers (usually AES) and these are reasonably secure against quantum attacks with a key big enough.

And with the vast majority of crimes you just need to wait until the statute of limitations, which in cryptography and quantum fields is quite short period.