kaiju8 wrote:
] Microsoft may have to fork up big bounty bucks trying to
] unearth future hackers, particularly when they are light years
] away on distant worlds.
]
] Add one more worry to the computerized world of the 21st
] century. Could a signal from the stars broadcast by an alien
] intelligence also carry harmful information, in the spirit of
] a computer virus? Could star folk launch a "disinformation"
] campaign -- one that covers up aspects of their culture?
] Perhaps they might even mask the "real" intent of dispatching
] a message to other civilizations scattered throughout the
] Cosmos.
]
] These are concerns that deserve attention explains Richard
] Carrigan, Jr., a physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator
] Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. Those engaged in the Search
] for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), he contends, should
] think about decontaminating potential SETI signals.

hahaha! i can't help feeling like there's about a trillion better uses for SETI funding...

funny though.