unpopular_opinion

The NSA has likely stored all military encrypted communication of everyone else on this planet.

If the NSA gets their hands on a quantum computer, they can map the exact military capabilities of all the US adversaries until the time their enemies (this includes their "allies") switch to quantum resistant schemes. This would give a huge military advantage in actual war time.

In 1994 (and probably before that) it was known that quantum computers could crack communications and I consider any nation state which didn't invest in quantum resistant cryptography to be negligent. All military communication should ideally have halted until they fixed that problem.

Cryptography was supposed to protect some secrets for decades. I think it will result in a lot of hurt for many states who didn't property invest in their national security.

P.S. The NSA can also be used as an instrument of economic espionage; imagine that you have access to all the worlds intellectual property. Instead of having to do R&D, you can just steal everything.

Can I sign a contract with IBM to get 100% guaranteed hardware + software correctness (at a cost of 10M USD per mistake found) and 99.999% uptime (at a cost of 1M USD per minute of downtime above that)?

How much would it cost? If you cannot offer this, why would I care about IBM in the first place?