Talk:In Between the Static/@comment-25481661-20150919041423

I&#39;m posting the URL to the entire article underneath Edward Snowden&#39;s comment, when he was interviewed by Neil DeGrasse Tyson:  &quot;So if you have an alien civilization trying to listen for other civilizations, or our civilization trying to listen for aliens, there&#39;s only one small period in the development of their society when all of their communication will be sent via the most primitive and most unprotected means.&#39;&#39;

 &quot;So when we think about everything that we&#39;re hearing through our satellites or everything that they&#39;re hearing from our civilization (if there are indeed aliens out there), all of their communications are encrypted by default.

 &quot;So what we are hearing, that&#39;s actually an alien television show or you know a phone call...is indistinguishable to us from cosmic microwave background radiation.&quot;

http://www.businessinsider.com/edward-snowden-talks-alien-communication-with-neil-degrasse-tyson-2015-9