re: #50 jaunte

This is an interesting part of the paper; no physical alien invasion required:

6.2 Information hazard
If humanity did not come into direct physical contact with ETI, it could still be possible for ETI to unintentionally harm humanity. This could occur if ETI send harmful information to humanity via electromagnetic transmission. A malicious ETI broadcaster could, for example, send a message containing harmful information that either damages human technology, analogous to a computer virus, or coerces humans into a seemingly benign but ultimately destructive course of action, such as the construction of a dangerous device, [76].

Didn’t this work the other way around when Jeff Goldblum sent a 1990’s Mac virus into the alien mothership?