Congressman Pat Harrigan(@RepPatHarrigan):Imagine a thief who can't pick your lock today, but takes a photo of it, walks away, and comes back in five years with better tools. That is exactly what China is doing with American data right now, collecting everything they can get their hands on and waiting for quantum computing to catch up so they can crack it all at once. @POTUS signed an executive order this week to get ahead of that threat, and I am introducing legislation to put the full force of Congress behind it. We are talking about reshoring quantum supply chains, transitioning federal systems to encryption that quantum computers cannot break, and making sure America defines what the next era of computing looks like.

2026.06.23 21:32

Imagine a thief who can't pick your lock today, but takes a photo of it, walks away, and comes back in five years with better tools. That is exactly what China is doing with American data right now, collecting everything they can get their hands on and waiting for quantum computing to catch up so they can crack it all at once. @POTUS signed an executive order this week to get ahead of that threat, and I am introducing legislation to put the full force of Congress behind it. We are talking about reshoring quantum supply chains, transitioning federal systems to encryption that quantum computers cannot break, and making sure America defines what the next era of computing looks like.