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>rut it on an entirely physically disconnected (battery powered) machine inside a Faraday cage What if decompression produced an alien message hundreds of giga
by sbierwagen 9y ago
>rut it on an entirely physically disconnected (battery powered) machine inside a Faraday cage
What if decompression produced an alien message hundreds of gigabytes in length? Is that file completely safe to transmit to un-airgapped computers?
Would you bet all of human civilization that it's safe? No way any part of it would produce any negative effect on a human reading it?
>Send the plans to a massive superweapon but only send it to the USA
Laser beams sent over interstellar distances will be hundreds of thousands of kilometres wide at the destination.
The threat model for a hostile probe inside our solar system would be rather different, of course.
- 13of40 9y ago"This is a national security issue that must be treated with the utmost care. Can you analyze and decode this message we received from Alpha Centauri 4?" [Time passes] "By Jove, I think we've cracked it, Sir. It's essentially Huffman encoded and contains a mechanism for repeating redundant strings. Let me see if I can decode the entire message." [Time passes] "Shit, my computer crashed."