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====== Close the Back Door ======
===== Cyber Security in a Quantum World =====

Rakesh fell asleep watching online videos not long after his wife succumbed to slumber. He'd had a busy day creating digital art. He'd uploaded a new book cover design to his cloud service that evening and would wake up to feedback from his client in America, a famous author who had taken a liking to Rakesh's art. This cover could make his career. A million people seeing his talent... The possibilities astonished him.

As he slept, a group of quantum supercomputers residing in a server cluster in Mumbai ran without tiring. Nicknamed the Eigenweasels, they solved complex quadratic equations using thermal annealing. But Rakesh didn't care. All he cared was that it kept his art safe.

The Eigenweasels launched cyber attack after cyber attack against... well, themselves. They sought back doors in the world's infrastructure, and when they found it, closed it. 

Rakesh's cloud service had one such vulnerability. The 'friendly fire' exposed the weakness but did not take advantage of it. Instead, the Eigenweasels alerted network administrators to the risk. Within minutes, the 'back door' was not just closed, but bricked over. 

The author was quite pleased by Rakesh's work and had very little feedback. Artist and author each had a peaceful digital interchange and never noticed the Eigenweasels guarding their backs.