Quantum Minesweeper 2017

Robot is back, and the C Y B E R is back, too. The show takes a special interest in showing off the details that usually get glossed over, often drawing on real hacks and real cybersecurity problems.

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So a fter every episode, I’ll be breaking down who got hacked, how, and with what. It turns out, there’s a lot more to each one tha n you can see on - screen.We’re back! After a year away, Mr. Robot is coming back with a bang. Tyrell has literally gone underground, Elliot is souring on his anti-corporate crusade, and the world overall continues to fall apart.

And it’s only 2015!As season 3 picks up, Elliot has recovered from his episode-ending gunshot wound, just in time to resume the ongoing struggle within his own psyche, which may well determine the fate of capitalism. The battle lines are drawn, and power has been restored. We even got a dramatic putting-on-the-hoodie moment! Now let’s get to the hacks. SWEEPING FOR MINESThis week saw Mr. Robot’s first full hacking tournament, a techno-themed basement rave that might be the first Capture the Flag tournament we’ve ever seen on TV. Elliot and Darlene are interested because this is the only hacker space in New York with a direct fiber connection.

Robot timeline, as in reality, Verizon has.) But since they need the space to clear out, Elliot steps in to solve the challenge early, basically whispering the answer to a nearby hacker as if he were laying out a checkmate. It’s not as easy as it looks on TVCompetitions like this are a very real and popular part of hacker culture. They’re called “capture the flag” games because of the balance between offense and defense: you have to balance your team’s resources between exploiting bugs on the opponent’s network, and protecting your own. The biggest CTF tournaments, but there are smaller ones throughout the year. In fact, the specific game they’re playing — breaking into a web-hosted version of the game Minesweeper, while hosting their own — is based on a real game that was played at the Chaos Communication Congress in 2012. You can see the challenge, and check out a. Fair warning: it’s not as easy as it looks on TV!

SIRI, STOP THE CARWeirdly, my favorite hack of the week came from Bobby Cannavale’s Irving, the Dark Army fixer and barbecue enthusiast who has turned out to be one of season 3’s biggest surprises. Escaping from the hacker space with Elliot and Darlene, Irving spots an FBI agent tailing them, and manages to slow the car to a stop just by talking on the phone.

There’s a lot going on at once here. Irving is impersonating a cop, running the car’s license plate against a DMV lookup tool to work backward to its. Then he uses that to identify the car to a dispatcher and shut it down. A rev limiter can force the engine to idleThe important thing here is that the car has OnStar, which includes something called a rev-limiter. If OnStar thinks your car has been stolen, the company can use that rev limiter to force the engine to idle, at which point the car rolls to a stop so the police can swing by and pick it up. In practice, this tends to happen through GPS coordinates rather than VINs, but the basic hack here is very plausible.You may remember, Irving says, “I see the lights blinking” right before the FBI car stalls out. That’s drawn from real life, too: OnStar will often typically flash the lights before a slowdown to confirm with the officer that they’ve taken control of the right car.You might think a remote shutdown switch is a bad thing to have in a police car, but General Motors, which makes both OnStar and a ton of police cars, actually seems pretty excited about.

It’s always possible there’s some secret cop-switch that you could flip to disable the rev-limiter, but since the shutdown request usually goes through the police office itself, it doesn’t seem like a huge problem in real life. ONE LAST THINGIf you were watching closely during that scene in the basement with Tyrell, Mr. Robot, and Angela, you might have seen an up-close monitor shot of a hackery-looking website. The narrative point was to confirm that E-Corp still has a vulnerability, and Mr.

Robot’s plan for Stage Two is still viable — but the website itself is still very much a thing. It’s called, and it keeps a running tab on all the devices connected to the internet. A lot of them are Internet-of Things devices like web cameras and smart doorbells, and a lot of them are completely unsecured — which is a big part of why it’s so important to keep tabs on this stuff. It’s not just for evil hackers, I swear.

That’s all the hacks for this week, but we talk about all that and more on the Mr. Robot Digital After Show, which you can see above. We still don’t know what’s up with Dom, or what any of the weird alternate timeline stuff is about. Let me know if there’s anything else you’re wondering about, by, or by tweeting at us with the hashtag. See you next week!Disclosure: NBC Universal, owner of USA Network, is an investor in Vox Media, The Verge ’s parent company. Additionally, we are an independent editorial partner in the Mr.

Robot Digital After Show hosted by The Verge.

AbstractQuantum computing is a young but intriguing field of science. It combines quantum mechanics with information theory and computer science to potentially solve certain formerly computationally expensive tasks more efficiently. Classical computers are based on bits that can take on the value zero or one. The values are distinguished by voltage differences in transistors. Quantum computers are instead based on quantum bits, or qubits, that are represented physically by something that exhibits quantum properties, like for example electrons.

Qubits also take on the value zero or one, which could correspond to spin up and spin down of an electron. However, qubits can also be in a superposition state between the quantum states corresponding to the value zero and one. This property is what causes quantum computers to be able to outperform classical computers at certain tasks. One of these tasks is searching through an unstructured database. Whereas a classical computer in the worst case has to search through the whole database in order to find the sought element, i.e. The computation time is proportional to the size of the problem, it can be shown that a quantum computer can find the solution in a time proportional to the square root of the size of the problem.

This report aims to illustrate the advantages of quantum computing by explicitly solving the classical Windows game Minesweeper, which can be reduced to a problem resembling the unstructured database search problem. It is shown that solving Minesweeper with a quantum algorithm gives a quadratic speedup compared to solving it with a classical algorithm. The report also covers introductory material to quantum mechanics, quantum gates, the particular quantum algorithm Grover's algorithm and complexity classes, which is necessary to grasp in order to understand how Minesweeper can be solved on a quantum computer.