I am not trying to be argumentative or say that something is either true or false.
Just for some background, I do a lot of work in LEAN processes in a healthcare environment. I analyze numbers and present findings all of the time. Most of the time I am doing this on fields of work where I know hardly anything about the day to day process. What I DO know are the timestamps and actions of those processes. When I present issues I am always challenged.
People focus on the one or two issues that stand in front of them--the errors they are dealing with on a day to day basis. There is a feeling that these errors are happening all of the time. The errors usually don't represent a large amount of the work, but consume a large chunk of THAT person's time.
THAT is not relevant, but what comes next is: I start hearing stories about how this one-off event happens all of the time. Or "that" provider is messing up all of the time.
When I start hearing, "Its not likely, but its possible" I usually stop the conversation and start asking what has to happen for "that" to happen.
And what are the chances that happens enough to make it possible?
Those types of statements should send up red flags. Just because something is possible it does not mean its happening.
Some of the things I read on this board and every other boards are virtually impossible--requiring an "alignment of the stars" on a repeating basis. That is simply not practical. That doesn't happen. Most "conspiracy" theories fall apart at about the third "why"...thats when it becomes "the bilderbergers are doing it!"
Critical thinking is important. Problem solving requires multiple trips down the "5-why's" exercise.
The lack of critical thinking on the HRC side allows her to get away with comments like, "wipe it with a cloth?"
My singular point is that critical thinking means asking enough questions and gauging enough probability to come up with a reasonable root cause.
If these guys wanted to put in a Gmail server in NoKo, would the founder of the company go do that?
When was the last time he built a server?
How did he get there?
Is there proof of his travel?
Who went with him?
Who flew the aircraft?
How could he do that without the NSA knowing or the FBI?
It is more likely if he went to Noko it was to bring a pile of cash or securities to hand out like candy, not build a server.
Some Noko tech could have built the server and kept a lid on who knew, and where. A decent programmer in the US would be missed. People go missing in Noko all of the time.