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yes thank god someone else is saying it. everyone always acts like it's the smartest shit they've ever heard when it's pretty poorly thought out.
what if you were a civilization that made von neumann probes and sent them out to every star system in 100 light years. If you found someone with technology you don't have to send the signal directly back to your home world, you can bounce it between a dozen probes at different stars before sending it home and no one will know where you live.
these nerds have never heard of a VPN I guess.
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Part of the plot of the book Chindi, actually. Humanity discovers a stealth observation satellite that's hundreds of thousands of years old, of alien make, and follows its broadcast path along multiple other satellites in multiple other systems, before discovering a gargantuan automated museum ship sent off by a forgotten civilization as part of a millenia-long documentation project.