The falling victim in an online hacking scheme is already a common item whenever your face is focused on a screen. It could be a false ad, annoying pop-up, or even an email posing as another person to get your trust. But in the near future, this may change. Thanks to a few British scientists that demonstrated a prototype quantum network that could secure the accounts of each human being on the internet against hackers.
Quantum network-- a solution to solve a hacking problem
Generally speaking, internet connectivity is being connected through a physical connection like glass fiber. In this case, it was different.
The researchers only created a system where every user only has a single glass fiber connected to a source of quantum entanglement.
The University of Bristol first created a network for eight users using receiver boxes monitored within the lab, each receiving information from the single system.
To know the reliability of their distance, the boxes were connected to optical fibers across the area and transmit messages via quantum communication through the city's existing optical fiber network.
Scientists behind the experiment believe that multiplexing could lower each region's costs with its communication from over $6 billion to around $6 million, which is less than 1%.
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Written by Jamie Pancho
