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USS Maine, anyone? The evidence and the release of statements about that evidence seems extremely light, and way over the line of being dangerous.

• mikeash 12y ago
  There are far better ways to drum up support for an invasion of North Korea than a false-flag hacking of an entertainment company. All you'd really have to do is wait a little while until they test another nuclear bomb or shell South Korea again or sink another South Korean ship or anything of the sort, and then take a hard line response instead of the standard "if we ignore them maybe they'll go away" response. The idea that this was drummed up to start a war makes no sense to me.
  • logfromblammo 12y ago
    Maybe it's a double secret false flag. The real goal is to pass a cybersecurity bill in the US Congress to counter industrial espionage by Chinese professional crackers targeted against American and multinational businesses. Or if that wasn't the real goal, never let a good crisis go to waste, and just do that anyway.
  • takeda 12y ago
    It's not about invading Korea, it's about justifying new laws that would provide tighter control over the Internet as a way to "keep us secure".