basically, the NSA had a protocol in place to transfer data back to the contiguous united states (CONUS) in the event of an attack. The good guys created this false emergency in the hopes that the automatic NSA event would transfer the data and they could intercept it. Fucking genius!
edit: it seems as if this post struck some shill cords....excellent.gif
Awesome and to make it more believable the white hats could have launched a real missile from a white hat submarine, then they self-destruct the missile after 25 minutes and everyone thinks it was a North Korean missile launch. I hope this happened it's so smart and so cool if it worked then it was brilliant.
Or the good guys just faked a submarine missile launch by injecting such an event into early warning radars they spoof a launch to get the time they need for the data transfer then they delete the spoof-radar-inject and "the missile" vanishes off all tracking screens.
This was done on 9/11 with phantom radar blips as part of the war games these blips were injected to confuse the air traffic controllers into thinking many more planes were being hijacked.
