Other worlds’ inhabitants may send us “contaminated” signals in order to “hack” our communication systems.
At least, this is what the study by American astrophysicists Michael Hippke and John G. Learned, which was published on the website Arxiv.org, cautions about.
The SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) initiative tries to find life on other planets by using modern antennas and computers to examine extraterrestrial electromagnetic signals.
Furthermore, scientists are attempting to send and receive encoded communications from space.
Extraterrestrials might transmit signals to communication networks with dangerous malware, according to the study.
Threatening to destroy the Sun if humanity do not agree to accept their demands, for example.
According to specialists, SETI projects and personal computers are at risk of being infected by a trojan or virus, which may offer a planet-level hacker access to personal data and the operating system. The researchers concluded: “We can either delete an extraterrestrial communication or take the risk!”
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