On Friday , Neil deGrasse Tysonwelcomed Edward Snowden to his StarTalk podcast . Along with the common conversation about privacy and administration , Snowden had another crucial word of advice to supply : encoding may hurt our ability to see , or be seen by , extraterrestrials .
talk to deGrasse Tyson from Russia , Snowden explained that the current need for data encoding may not be doing us many favors — at least in the cosmic horse sense . He say :
“ If you look at encrypted communication , if they are properly encrypted , there is no real way to tell that they are write in code . You ca n’t identify a properly encrypted communication from random behaviour …
“ So if you have an an alien civilisation endeavor to heed for other civilization or our civilisation trying to listen for aliens , there ’s only one little catamenia in the development of their society when all their communicating will be send via the most crude and most unprotected means . ”
He also point out that properly encrypted alien signal could also be “ identical to us from cosmic microwave oven backdrop radiation ” . But deGrasse Tyson has a witty riposte to that particular warning : “ Only if they have the same security measures problems as us . ” odd , because it ’s true .
You canlisten to the sequence of StarTalk here .
[ STarTalkviaGuardian ]
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