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Originally posted by Possum:
It never ceases to amaze me how naive and guillible some people can be 
Like our control-obsessed federal government is ever going to really allow you access to information of such potentially explosive importance. This are the same feds who still refuse to de-classify information from nearly a hundred years ago. Get a clue, folks, you're being duped.
This has nothing to do with the government. The radio telescope, the researchers who wrote the programs, the sponsors, the computer systems, and everything else are academic or private. Unless the political order in this country is a whole lot different than it has seemed all of my life, there's no G-man approving scientific research projects or filtering the data stream in and out of universities... yet! Not that there aren't a lot of G-men who'd like to appoint themselves to the job! What's 'explosive' about a signal from an alien civilization? Will it let you over-throw the Govt?
I think they're much more worried about people learning how to make explosives and/or firearms in their own homes than they are about a bunch of geeks competing in the SETI easter egg hunt.