Re: Save the World! (Use Linux?) ET story Guardian Newspaper
- From: Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:21:26 +0000
On 2005-11-25, ac <"aec$news"@candt.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Story title:
> 'Scientists, be on guard ... ET might be a malicious hacker'
>
> link:
> http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,16559,1650296,00.html
>
> Extracted paragraph:
> '..........In his report, entitled Do potential Seti signals need to be
> decontaminated?, he suggests the Seti scientists may be too blase about
> finding a signal. "In science fiction, all the aliens are bad, but in
> the world of science, they are all good and simply want to get in
> touch." His main concern is that, intentionally or otherwise, an
> extra-terrestrial signal picked up by the Seti team could cause
> widespread damage to computers if released on to the internet without
> being checked...........'
>
> :-)
>
> I knew that using Linux took me onto the 'high ground' but had not
> realised quite how high, until now......
> :-)
I say, Carruthers, this SETI thing is a Bash Script that will set up our
radio telescopes to receive further instructions for something. Shall we
run it before tea or afterwards?
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