New phone. Transferred everything. Thought I’d transferred everything.

The authenticator app doesn’t move with a normal backup. I knew that. I knew it in the way you know things you’ve read once and filed under “later.” So at 9:40 in the morning I’m looking at a login screen asking for a six digit code from an app that no longer exists on any device I own.

Behind that login: a few hundred domains. Nameservers, renewals, transfer locks. All of it.

Cole Tomas Allen, 31, from California, ran through a metal detector at the Washington Hilton — the venue of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — and fired one or two rounds before being shot and taken down. The Secret Service extracted the Vice President in seconds. Trump was flanked and removed in twenty. By any operational measure, the protection apparatus worked. By any other measure, someone with a gun got into the same building as the president at a nationally televised event.

Two research teams published findings saying we’re closer than anyone expected. One estimate puts the current largest quantum machine at more than halfway to the size needed to crack the encryption that secures basically everything online.

“Just around the corner” is relative. But this moved from “eventual theoretical problem” to “timeline question” faster than most people were tracking.

What happens to all the data that’s been harvested now, to be decrypted later? That’s the uncomfortable part of this.