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I'm pretty sure new PCs and laptops have had gigabit standard for probably about 10 years.
Enthusiast and prosumer motherboards are now coming with 2.5 gigabit networking.
Doesn't make it okay.
If you're gonna be pedantic then try to do a good job of it.
As for the value to a consumer. That comes almost entirely from its density not its hardness, something you'd know if you read OP.
As for the "vastly inflated prices" if you have the ability to produce and sell 1 kilogram cubes with the side length of an inch and a half for significantly less than OP paid then you should consider selling that information and retiring.
The papers primary argument against this theory seems to be that the NSAs budget for related work is not high enough to suggest that they are concerned about this or have the capability of discovering this. However, I believe that it is likely that this budget was allocated before these revelations about quantum computing. And that the discovery did not have to come from quantum computing research.
The next argument is more compelling, it references experts saying that this type of development is not coming soon. But this could possibly incorrect of the scale of investment by an entity is much larger than publically known.
For there to be something that the NSA knows that the public does not, it would probably have to have been discovered by an entity with more funding. Like another nation, and the NSA found out about it through intelligence collection.
For this to be the case, an entity would have to have invested significantly and also leaked the results of this investment. Or perhaps just the scale of the investment leaked and that was enough to elicit concern.
In short, the most straight forward explanation is IMO more plausible than the paper suggests.
Citation Needed
I stopped reading here, there have always been inhibitors of free expression in the U.S. to suggest otherwise is to show one's ignorance of the history of the topic at hand.