The Ultimate Hacker: SETI Signals May Need to Be Decontaminated
Abstract
Biological contamination from space is a remote but recognized possibility. SETI signals might also contain harmful information. Some argue that a SETI signal could not contaminate a terrestrial computer because the idiosyncratic computer logic and code constitute an impenetrable firewall. Suggestions are given below on how to probe these arguments and decontaminate SETI signals.
- Publication:
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Bioastronomy 2002: Life Among the Stars
- Pub Date:
- June 2004
- Bibcode:
- 2004IAUS..213..519C