NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption

NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption
In room-size metal boxes ­secure against electromagnetic leaks, the National Security Agency is racing to build a computer that could break nearly every kind of encryption used to protect banking, medical, business and government records around the world. According to documents...“a cryptologically useful quantum computer” ...is part of a $79.7 million research program titled “Penetrating Hard Targets.”

Greenwald: Obama Admin Would Make Snowden ‘Disappear’ If He Returned To U.S.
During a heated exchange on CNN’s The Lead, Guardian columnist and Edward Snowden ally Glenn Greenwald claimed that should Snowden return to the United States, the Obama administration would make him “disappear in prison” and “not allow him to speak”. Saying that the U.S. government does not allow whistleblowers as in previous years, Greenwald claimed, “If Snowden came back to Washington before he was convicted of anything, he would disappear in prison and not be allowed to speak.”