Anthropic Mythos – We’ve Opened Pandora’s Box
From Steve Blank Podcast by Steve Blank
May 1, 2026 · 9 min
About this episode
The episode discusses the potential early arrival of a cybersecurity apocalypse due to advancements in quantum computing.
For a decade the cybersecurity community was predicting a cyber apocalypse tied to a single event – the day a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer could run Shor’s algorithm and break the public-key cryptography systems most of the internet runs on. It’s possible that the first cybersecurity apocalypse may have come early.
People in this episode
Host: Steve Blank
Topics covered
- cybersecurity
- quantum computing
- public-key cryptography
- cyber apocalypse
- Shor's algorithm
Keywords
- cybersecurity
- quantum computing
- Shor's algorithm
- public-key cryptography
- cyber apocalypse
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: cybersecurity community
Products: Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer
Books & works: Shor’s algorithm, public-key cryptography systems
Places: internet
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