No it isn't life on another world. We all would have heard of that by now if that had happened. That would be BIG news.
No in this case SETI was used to find a stolen laptop. You see the laptop was stolen from one of the SETI users. The way SETI works is that it records the IP number of each computer and has a number assigned to each computer running SETI. So he contacted SETI, told them what happened and they did the rest. The crook didn't bother to remove the SETI software from the laptop. So when he connected to the net and left the computer running. SETI automatically started up and contacted it's mainframe. When it did they had the IP of the stolen laptop. With a little Police work the laptop was found and the crook arrested. Nice when tech can return your stolen goods isn't it.
The article was in USA Today on Feb. 21st.
Missing Laptop found in ET hunt
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