Rude Galactic Neighbors

I have had neighbors who play loud music, complain about the height of my grass, and do other less pleasant things, but none who are outright rude. Now it appears that the British are planning a "high-speed penetrator" project in which a payload of sensors and instruments would crash its way into various planets and send back information. This seems like a very rude thing to do from a "space neighbor" standpoint. I'm pretty sure that we wouldn't appreciate some other alien civilization lobbing pot-shots our way just to find out what kind of resources may be buried beneath our soil. It seems to me kind of a bootstrap approach: we're trying to look for signs of life on other planets, but in the process we're doing some pretty serious damage to anything that might be in the immediate vicinity of said sensors. Weird.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun08/6345