The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) fascinates me, but one thing I've never had anyone explain to me is how we'd be able to distinguish intelligent signals from from the background noise. After all, I assume that advanced alien civilizations have decent encryption and data compression technology, and encrypted data looks like random data if you don't have the key.
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