As Sophocles, the ancient Greek tragedian, stated over 2400 years ago, “Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse”. Oscar Wilde wrote “When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers”. The true benefits of quantum computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and post-quantum cryptography (PQC) may ironically be a zero-sum gain for cybersecurity, unfairly empowering the tools and methods for cyber-attacks and cyber-defense equally, unless one establishes a strategic advantage over the other. How did we tiptoe here from the big data and omnipresent services cloud to the dark...