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Defending against quantum-computer hacking using biometrics

In 1978, BBC radio ran a satirical exposé about a group of hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who were trying to get inside the brain of a human named Arthur Dent, who was a fugitive from the planet Earth. The radio show was so popular that it went on to become a book, a TV series, a movie and recently has been re-released on CD for future generations in its original audio format.  The story, called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, was told from the perspective of Arthur, who had no idea the importance of his former home, Earth, which had been destroyed shortly after he escaped. Neither did Arthur have an understanding of the tremendous significance of his own brain. The pan-dimensional beings, which appeared to him as mice, were actually the administrators of a massive planet-sized computer. They regarded Arthur as just a circuit in the computer that they managed. The mice had been conducting experiments on humans from inside Skinner boxes in the laboratories of human p...