By Jennifer Faull

China has ploughed £60m into fibre-optic cables which will, theoretically, create a computer network between Beijing and Shanghai which is unhackable.

According to the Telegraph, within the next two years the cables will “transmit quantum encryption keys that can completely secure government, financial and military information from eavesdroppers.”

The project kicked off after the Edward Snowden revelations, which lead professor, Pan Jianwei from the University of Science and Technology China (USTC), said was evidence that “we are always being hacked.”

He said the cable could see all communications in China, including photographs on cloud servers, feature quantum encryption, which writes codes, Read full story ›

Source: The Drum