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Edward Snowden: we may never spot space aliens thanks to encryption
The US government whistleblower Edward Snowden believes encryption might make it difficult or even impossible to distinguish signals from alien species from cosmic background radiation. On Friday night, Snowden appeared from Moscow on the astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk podcast, via a robot video link called a “beam remote presence system”.
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Even encrypted communication shows up as a pattern. The fact that we may not recognize the pattern doesn't mean we can't recognize it as a pattern.