Encrypted Communications May Make Discovering Aliens Impossible.
Christopher Files / 9 years ago
Well, it’s taken a bit longer than expected, but Edward Snowden has finally lost his sanity in Russia, this is rather a joke considering the headline sounds quite bizarre, but the cogent statement which Mr Snowden conveyed is, as expected a lot more sensible than that.
Snowden appeared on the astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk Podcast from Moscow via a robot video link called a “beam remote presence system”. Basically this gadget is a virtual presence device which has been conveyed within the medical profession with the aim of allowing doctors to see patients without seeing them in person. The wide-ranging interview included the assertion by Edward Snowdon that “It took a very long time for me to develop any kind of scepticism at all even to the most over-extended claims of the extension of programs or policies [by the US security services],” he said.
This may sound slightly naïve, but when an individual is in an environment as in these case, scenarios and policies become normal, why you would question the day-to-day reality with which you have been accustomed to. Now for the alien bit, according to Snowden, “encrypted communication, if they are properly encrypted, there is no real way to tell that they are encrypted, “You can’t distinguish a properly encrypted communication from random behaviour.”
What Edward Snowdon was surmising is that if a life form on a distant planet was attempting to identify new signs of life, or vice versa, it would be impossible to decipher where those signals were emanating from if communications were encrypted. Theoretically therefore, if both sides used encrypted communications, it would make it impossible to read them or even recognise them.
This view of a new civilisations communications skills are as good a one as the next person, considering there haven’t been any recent sightings of aliens, or at least proven beyond all doubt 100% bona fide beings and not a 1990s video camera with a blurry shot .
Thank you techworm and startalkradio for providing us with this information.
