False Flag Psyops
Users speculate that a reported security incident, backdoor, or sabotage event is a false flag operation or psychological operation by governments or nation-states to distract, sow distrust, or manipulate perceptions.
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Maybe it's an actor for a nation state intentionally dropping this disinformation as a false flag to distract the humongous brains of HN!!!
Could be a false flag operation designed to discredit one side or another.
What would be the possible reason for conducting this particular false flag (assuming that's what it was)
yep, maybe it was a false flag to take people's eye off the -other- backdoor lol
could be a false flag operation
Could also be a psyop designed to make us believe everything is backdoored.
Surveillance-driven sabotage, perhaps?
Makes the conspiracy theorist inside me think why are the governments are overreacting... Are they testing their reach for a future false flag?
Why would anyone want to do this psyop? Who benefits from this?
It could be a false flag to result in this intimidation operation.