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QUANTUM THREATS AND DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY: WHY INDIA MUST REINVENT SECURITY BEFORE THE NEXT CYBER WAR
Mint Hyderabad
|October 06, 2025
As a time when the world is witnessing crippling cyberattacks, a stark reminder resounds: the battlefield of tomorrow is not just on land, sea, or air-it's in cyberspace.
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Ongoing attacks at major European airports, causing widespread delays, demonstrate how fragile digital systems truly are. Yet these incidents are only the beginning. The real threat lies deeper, in the vulnerabilities of national digital assets and the technologies that protect them.
Wars are no longer fought solely with boots crossing borders. The latest conflict unfolded differently from those of the pastmissiles flew without pilots crossing lines. In the future, these same missiles could be hijacked mid-flight if encryption fails. The culprit? Quantum computing.
This story is from the October 06, 2025 edition of Mint Hyderabad.
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