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I presume the report didn't just randomly come out at some random time. That is, everyone knew exactly when it was going to come out.

• vannevar 14y ago
  To the millisecond? I suppose it's possible. Even so, rumors drive spikes all the time. Someone could put out a false report, committing fraud in the reverse direction. I still doubt such a fraud could be detected at the time in any remotely reliable way.
  • sirclueless 14y ago
    The report is a government report, in machine-readable format, that is taken from a government server. If you wanted to put out a false report, you would have to hack the server or the connection to the server.
    • vannevar 14y ago
      No, you'd just have to convince people you were releasing inside information, like this kind of thing: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/28/tech/web/google-icoa-fake-news/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/28/tech/web/google-icoa-fake-... .