Ok lets all jump on the stupidity train
Excellent starting argument. I particularly enjoy the metaphor of a train.
"No marks on their bodies; clearly they drowned." potentially an absolutely false premise.
Of course there are any number of other ways that they could have died, I should have been more explicit; when I said clearly, I meant "the most logical hypothesis to test initially".
of course, poison could be detected, and would certainly not leave a mark. But that, once again, resurfaces the issue of getting 100 people to take the poison, and for some reason pushing these bodies in the water. (which defies any traditional logic, which of course it could be argued a murderer may not posess). However, testing for the presence of poison is easy. However, even if poison is found, it still doesn't follow logically that they were murdered. Although it is obviously a clear possibility. At that point, an investigation would obviously begin to examine the victims lives and especially over the last few days; perhaps they learn that the last anybody heard of them was that they were going to a public pool; then the investigation would continue, it's quite possible that it could indeed have been a homicide (perhaps some crazy weirdo put a powerful, skin-absorbable poison in the water". I wasn't trying to disprove that homicide was a possible cause, I was trying to say that geeks assertion that any time you find multiple bodies washed up on shore it was always homicide. That is simply not the case, and in any event, the response to geek's post was merely the expository introduction to my actual argument (that the method that they say was "used" is in fact impossible) to which you have not responded, instead commenting purely on my introductory exposition. I now know how Raymond Chen feels.
Am I saying a redirection didn't happen? Of course not. Am I saying it's not a security issue? No, I never stated anything for or against that. The fact that none of the sources I could find in an (admittedly) fast google search offers an explanation consisted with the IP protocol suggests that it is probably with some other component of the internet.
I'd be inclined to believe that it might be involve some sort of DNS poisoning, or we could even be really crazy and go with the oft-cited by experts possibility that it's just a common routing hiccup that happened to occur with a particular combination of subnets (routing US gov and mil traffic through China) A difficult to swallow coincidence especially after you've played fallout 3, but nonetheless the issue of survivor bias has to be considered.
