Scientists, be on guard ... ET might be a malicious hacker

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Ulli

I think this article is absurd. Earth's computers would seem laughably childish to a civilization which will be at least several million years (probably more) in advance of our technology. A lot of journalistic hysteria, as is so much of the news these days, written by people who know nothing and who are incapable of original thought.

Dominic :-0

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I think this article is absurd. Earth's computers would seem laughably childish to a civilization which will be at least several million years (probably more) in advance of our technology. A lot of journalistic hysteria, as is so much of the news these days, written by people who know nothing and who are incapable of original thought.

Dominic :-0

Yup. It's about as braindead as the idea of infecting an alien spaceship with a computer virus, as shown in the movie "Independence Day".

Sigh....

Regards Hans

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[quote]I think this article is absurd. Earth's computers would seem laughably childish to a civilization which will be at least several million years (probably more) in advance of our technology.

Perhaps all intelligently designed computer systems will eventually converge on a single logical design ... a derivative of Unix. Then we'll really be able to communicate with ET.

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Yup. It's about as braindead as the idea of infecting an alien spaceship with a computer virus, as shown in the movie "Independence Day".

Ahem... Actually I got a theory that might explain that thing... :-)

I haven’t seen the movie in some time, but I do believe they said that they “captured” one of the alien spaceships back in the 1950’s, right? Obviously, the scientists have been examining and testing the spaceship, and all the equipment in it, since then.

If you’re a Star Trek-fan (like me), and have seen the Voyager two-part episode “Future’s End”, you will understand where I got the following idea...

Suppose that the technological revolution of the late 20th century was the actual result of what the scientists found out when dissecting the alien spaceship. Of course, the government (or whoever) couldn’t blurt out to the world that they’ve found an alien spaceship. And as a result thereof, they couldn’t say anything about the technology in it.

Instead, they released bits and pieces of the advanced alien technology as they saw fit. They used it in military weapons (thereby constructing “smart weapons” and such), they used it in the U.S. space program (putting a man on the moon already in 1969, hello?!) and – to no one’s surprise – in computers.

Perhaps the way computers are built and programs constructed are all inspirations, or mere copies, of the way the aliens do it. So when Jeff Goldblum’s character wrote that virus, it was something he knew would work. The supposed super-advanced alien computer technology was neither advanced nor alien. It was one and the same.

“So why didn’t they say that in the movie?” you might ask. Well, we aren’t always told everything. Some things are left to our imaginations. And my imagination has certainly run wild! ;-)


/ Kiwi
Sweden

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Yup. It's about as braindead as the idea of infecting an alien spaceship with a computer virus, as shown in the movie "Independence Day".

Ahem... Actually I got a theory that might explain that thing... :-)

I haven’t seen the movie in some time, but I do believe they said that they “captured” one of the alien spaceships back in the 1950’s, right? Obviously, the scientists have been examining and testing the spaceship, and all the equipment in it, since then.

If you’re a Star Trek-fan (like me), and have seen the Voyager two-part episode “Future’s End”, you will understand where I got the following idea...

Suppose that the technological revolution of the late 20th century was the actual result of what the scientists found out when dissecting the alien spaceship. Of course, the government (or whoever) couldn’t blurt out to the world that they’ve found an alien spaceship. And as a result thereof, they couldn’t say anything about the technology in it.

Instead, they released bits and pieces of the advanced alien technology as they saw fit. They used it in military weapons (thereby constructing “smart weapons” and such), they used it in the U.S. space program (putting a man on the moon already in 1969, hello?!) and – to no one’s surprise – in computers.

Perhaps the way computers are built and programs constructed are all inspirations, or mere copies, of the way the aliens do it. So when Jeff Goldblum’s character wrote that virus, it was something he knew would work. The supposed super-advanced alien computer technology was neither advanced nor alien. It was one and the same.

“So why didn’t they say that in the movie?” you might ask. Well, we aren’t always told everything. Some things are left to our imaginations. And my imagination has certainly run wild! ;-)


/ Kiwi
Sweden

So most of our PCs are already infected by an alien malware, going by the name of "Windows" :-P

Regards Hans

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Oh no, it is true! I have it on my computer as well!


/ Kiwi
Sweden

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http://www.kivisaar.se/

Oh no, it is true! I have it on my computer as well!


/ Kiwi
Sweden

Don't worry there is a cure - its's called cfdisk ;)

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Need help? Check out the excellent Unofficial BOINC-Wiki!
'We are the BOINC. Prepare to be assimilated.'

Oh no, it is true! I have it on my computer as well!

Don't worry there is a cure - its's called cfdisk ;)

And then let Linux be your saviour?

;-)
Martin

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If ET sent us her (or his?) program I would be very curious to run it on my computer. :-)

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How about the theory posed by James Woods' character in the movie "Contact." In the movie, the aliens transmit the design for a machine, and we, of course, can't resist the urge to build it. Woods' character worries that it's a "doomsday" machine, or a gate from which an alien army emerges to conquer the earth...

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How about the theory posed by James Woods' character in the movie "Contact." In the movie, the aliens transmit the design for a machine, and we, of course, can't resist the urge to build it. Woods' character worries that it's a "doomsday" machine, or a gate from which an alien army emerges to conquer the earth...

I'd say we'll get a bunch of RFC's, a top level domain and a contingent of universal IP addresses :o)


Regards Hans

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