{"id":27380,"date":"2016-06-29T19:47:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T02:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/will-quantum-computing-be-blackberrys-waterloo"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:28:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:28:23","slug":"will-quantum-computing-be-blackberrys-waterloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/will-quantum-computing-be-blackberrys-waterloo","title":{"rendered":"Will quantum computing be BlackBerry\u2019s Waterloo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/logo.will-quantum-computing-be-blackberrys-waterloo.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Definitely could see QC being Blackberry\u2019s achilles heal.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>WATERLOO \u2014 Advances in quantum computing could present a huge challenge to BlackBerry\u2019s biggest competitive advantage \u2014 its vaunted security software that has never been hacked.<\/p>\n<p>This seldom talked-about subject was raised recently by John Thompson, the associate vice-president for research at the University of Waterloo. Thompson was listening to a presentation by Mike Wilson, a senior vice-president and chief evangelist for BlackBerry, at a medical technology conference in Kitchener about a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>Both quantum computing and BlackBerry have deep roots in Waterloo. BlackBerry pioneered the smartphone industry and the wireless Internet from its suburban office parks in Waterloo.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecord.com\/news-story\/6746572-will-quantum-computing-be-blackberry-s-waterloo-\/\">http:\/\/www.therecord.com\/news-story\/6746572-will-quantum-com...waterloo-\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definitely could see QC being Blackberry\u2019s achilles heal. WATERLOO \u2014 Advances in quantum computing could present a huge challenge to BlackBerry\u2019s biggest competitive advantage \u2014 its vaunted security software that has never been hacked. This seldom talked-about subject was raised recently by John Thompson, the associate vice-president for research at the University of Waterloo. Thompson [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418,1512,1617,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet","category-mobile-phones","category-quantum-physics","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50208,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27380\/revisions\/50208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}