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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by koolba on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:01PM (#17983050)
> And of course it would be compressed or encrypted or both. So it would be indistinguishable from noise (as mentioned in other replies)

The perennial optimist in me thinks that that all the work on cracking Tor is finally going to pay off when we can decipher alien's sending each other selfies.

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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by earenndil on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:14PM (#17983143)
No reason to assume that they use the same encryption schemes we do.
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Re:SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating fro... by King-Aaron on Thursday September 13, 2018 @09:31PM (#17984102)
Well Geoff Goldblum made that assumption, and he was able to scp his files straight into an alien workstation soooooo
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