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I think the SETI and METI are the legacy of the analog communication of the 60-s and 70-s and are not relevant today. I think, if we want to look for the other civilizations, we should get some info from them first, and only then make a decision of whether to reveal ourselves or to stay in the shade. So, if we'd had a computer program which could penetrate another civilization's computers by masking itself as the noise, detect what kind of elementary programming operations the computers use, gather information and send it back, that would be much more useful and safe.
That makes a lot of sense, Crocodile. I would tend to agree with you. I think, however, that we have already shouted enough times to alert any saber-toothed aliens in the universe to our presence. All of those messages we sent are out there already. We cannot retract them.