I don't usually post on my conspiracy theories, because I don't take them too seriously myself. But my recent abuse by the internet has reminded me of one that I figured was worth sharing.
The question goes through my head, Why doesn't the government do more to prosecute computer viruses? Actual difficulties aside, I speculate that one reason is that they write them. Not all of them. Not even most of them. But that they require viruses to be out there so that theirs can do their dirty deeds and not stand out. Dirty deeds such as collecting personal data and disabling computer systems, private and commercial. Why don't they use it? Because they're keeping it handy, perparing for a future plan which changes frequently, and may be pretty loose. Persecution, as opposed to prosecution, is selectively targeting certain people for enforcement of bogus laws with an alterior agenda. What sort of personal data? Property for seizure, financial data to interrupt commerce, physical vulnerabilities to attack. No I don't mean military attack. Corrupt government organizations almost always have a connection to organized crime.
Of course I'm not saying "the government is out to get us" because our government has many branches, agencies, and levels. And each level, branch, and agency has a different type and level of corruption, whether it's for political power here, financial gain, or connected with foreign interests. But certainly agencies within our government have done some terrible things that I don't have to recount in order to be understood.
When will they use this? In my opinion, it's more of a when would they have used it. How would it be used? As carefully as possible. At a time when they could well make it appear to be a regular computer virus. Or something else. Such as an internal failure of computers at the beginning of the year 2000. Y2K.
I hypothesize that a disabling virus was sent out with a trigger that would be activated at the turn of the new millennium. People were told to expect such a thing and when many things, even if not everything, went wrong, people would blame Y2K. As the concern grew, whoever was behind it watched the public reaction and continuously considered whether or not to activate it. The preparatory response by conservatives showed that it was too early to try to gain power through chaotic situations, because people were too prepared, mentally as well as physically. So the Y2K bug was not activated. People involved decided to go for a longer term strategy. Bill Clinton would thus not be use an emergency situation to stay in office, which he clearly wanted to do forever. Around that same time, Hillary Clinton ran for the Senate.
Correct? Maybe. Far fetched? Slightly. Insane? Of course. Believable? Possibly.
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