If you're gonna scan and inspect thousands of ships, you need a good distraction.
"Look here, not at our covert military operation!" - The good guys.
Us autists looking up Evergreen info and the giant dick drawing have shifted the search algorithms and tasked reporters to focus on a single ship, when all of them are possible targets.
There is now too much noise in the search engines and back-channels for black hats to find intel of the good guys and their covert operation. Too much data to sift through, not enough time to do it.
"Do they know which one has the bomb, or don't they?" - The bad guys.
Edit: In other words, they had to give us conspiracy nutjobs a good distraction so our fervent dedication to the Movement doesn't spoil a very important operation.
If you're gonna scan and inspect thousands of ships, you need a good distraction.
"Look here, not at our covert military operation!" - The good guys.
Us autists looking up Evergreen info and the giant dick drawing have shifted the search algorithms and tasked reporters to focus on a single ship, when all of them are possible targets.
There is now too much noise in the search engines and back-channels for black hats to find intel of the good guys and their covert operation. Too much data to sift through, not enough time to do it.
"Do they know which one has the bomb, or don't they?" - The bad guys.
Edit: In other words, they had to give us conspiracy nutjobs a good distraction so our fervent dedication to the Movement doesn't spoil a very important operation.