Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement in Ottawa along with Ericsson chief executive officer Börje Ekholm and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne
DUBLIN After more than a year of easy-to-hack pandemic-induced Zoom meetings, the world could be "one step closer to ultimately secure conference calls," according to a British-led team of scientists. The group, which includes academics from Heinrich Heine University in Dusseldorf, claim in the journal Science Advances to have discovered how to facilitate hack-proof "quantum-secure conversation" between four parties. Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, what the team calls the "global reliance on remote collaborative working, including conference calls," has led to a "significant escalation of cyberattacks on popular teleconferencing platforms in the last year." The team said their newly published research is "a timely advance" that "could lead to conference calls with inherent unhackable security measures, underpinned by the principles of quantum physics."