Alien hackers?

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:35 am

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/s ... 96,00.html

Someone's worried.

Post by **Canidae** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:53 am

How about the Scientology flying saucer bases/crop circles in the desert story?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01065.html

Post by **glossy** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 6:02 am

that's just fucking retarded.

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 6:24 am

Yes an interesting read

Post by **glossy** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 6:58 am

They're onto you Whiskey

Post by **Dave** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:18 am

Actually, it would be cool if someone manipulated a Seti data set to trigger some kind of massive distributed virus... of terrestrial origin, of course...

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:19 am

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:24 am

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 7:29 am

the "hacker" bit interested me and you got me to click and read part of that dreadful article.

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:16 am

glossy wrote:They're onto you Whiskey

Thinking more about this subject, what if their attempt to contact us is indeed seen by us as hacking :icon26:

Post by **7zark7** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:30 am

Canidae wrote:How about the Scientology flying saucer bases/crop circles in the desert story?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01065.html

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Post by **glossy** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:31 am

Whiskey 7 wrote:
glossy wrote:They're onto you Whiskey
Thinking more about this subject, what if their attempt to contact us is indeed seen by us as hacking :icon26:

Or what if our attempts to recieve and decode/understand their data is seen by them as (possibly malicious) eavesdropping or spying? They might be pissed

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:39 am

those @!#& earthlings are packet sniffing!!11

Post by **Whiskey 7** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:50 am

glossy wrote:
Whiskey 7 wrote:
glossy wrote:They're onto you Whiskey
Thinking more about this subject, what if their attempt to contact us is indeed seen by us as hacking :icon26:
Or what if our attempts to recieve and decode/understand their data is seen by them as (possibly malicious) eavesdropping or spying? They might be pissed

Hmmm, yes good point.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:00 am

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:the "hacker" bit interested me and you got me to click and read part of that dreadful article.

What did you expect?

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:07 am

i thought it was a joke article, but it seems some people need a computed axial tomography performed.