Indeed^^^
What this report does is adds credibility for scientists to now haul arse in and look into the data and recordings by instruments properly without feeling they will be ridiculed or looked down upon by their peers. The report won't give any answers, the report allows actual analysis now to take place freely.
That's an accepted theory? Seems very human-centric, and to vastly overestimate our importance in the universe. Which is something we tend to do, a lot.
The universe being pretty massive and filled with the same material resources we have here.
I'm not sure why it would be assumed that any being capable of reaching us would be hostile. As opposed to merely curious or even entirely disinterested in us. We wouldn't be special. We wouldn't be important.
I know in all the movies they have to conquer the Earth because they want to make it their new home, but in reality if they have the tech to zip around the universe they probably couldn't give a crap about this particular planet, or even galaxy.
Agreed, who accepts this theory exactly I've only ever heard Stephen Hawking advise caution when sending out signals pointing to our whereabouts and he referenced early human settlers and adventurers that occupied native lands and took what isn't theirs.
If something is out there capable of intergalactic travel then it's almost certainly as discussed in this thread before, probe/robotic in nature (AI) and not biological. It is what we have already done in a primitive manner, Voyager 1 and 2 are heading out of our solar system and one day may be detected by life elsewhere or mistaken as a UFO when it hurtles past their planet.
Some people think they will be hostile because that's what humans would do in our current state and this goes back in history as were are not (globally) as intelligent a we need to be to have that kind of capability, we are still primitive. If a species is hostile with that kind of capability then they will almost certainly have destroyed themselves. Picture the scenario, factions of a civilisation at war, with UNLIMITED power and energy at their disposal, it only ends one way. The reason I say unlimited is because you have to have unlimited power to generate the kind of forces needed to uphold folding space-time to flick one one place to another in the universe (technically not physically travelling faster than light but effectively using wormhole theory which on paper is valid but as said, you need unimaginable energy rivalling that of black holes iirc).
Those civilisations won't be hostile, they will be scientific explorers in nature with no intention to interfere but monitor and maybe make contact when the life they are monitoring has evolved beyond a certain point. I can't see it being any other way really.