Super-Script

possibly. will have to wait for the investigative reporting from news sources.

Super-Script

I would reckon something simpler. High Frequency trading programs gone haywire as a result of Chinas stock crash. NYSE officials recognized it and pulled the plug. The airline snapfu was unexpected causality.

BeerBaron

I'm gonna reiterate- very nice catch!

Certainly lends itself to possibility. If it's sanctioned grey hatingt from the government than it would explain the lack of "OMG the sky is falling" from the MSM.

Empire_of_the_mind

I don't think so. I actually think it was a pre-emptive protective measure to guard against just such a thing.

The US is clearly involved in the action in China's markets the past two days. They were expecting retribution and this was a cute end-run around it. The idea was to prevent any "panic selling" in the NYSE today as a result of China's crashing market. That would have been a natural and expected turn of events. The LACK of US market fall-out from china's crash is a huge clue as to what is happening.

Super-Script

That's what I surmise was happening. But that still doesn't explain what happened to United Airlines. Coincidence, maybe not.

Empire_of_the_mind

definitely not. grounding airplanes is an odd move. the airlines are super worried about retaliation for those asian airlines we went after.

Super-Script

I'm just going to wait for the news reports from non-mainstream outlets to piece the evidence and speculate the cause.

Empire_of_the_mind

the most helpful people will understand how these things work. For example, regarding the official excuse for the NYSE being down today - that had better NOT be true. The official story is that a software update took things down. If the NYSE's it dept is this bad at their job I'd be far more concerned than if they got hacked/DDOS'd in some way. FAR MORE.

United grounding planes is VERY EXPENSIVE. They don't do such a thing lightly.

Super-Script

THE NYSE is a big money playground that profits at the expense of working men and women. Pumping up gas prices, crop prices with their automated trading systems. The more bullshit distrust this event engenders in the minds of the populous the better. But that's my shallow opinion.

Crawls

Nice catch.

I don't even know if any of this stuff falls under /v/conspiracy . There were just too many to blame on random glitches. I don't think it was anything malicious but it certainly wasn't a coincidence.

deathcomesilent

A test makes sense. A malicious group would never expose such a massive unknown vulnerability unless they were going to make it count.

The fact that we are still able to trade stocks tells me this wasn't meant to hurt anyone. I'd imagine this was either: to alert the system to the vulnerability ("ethical hacking"), or a test to gauge internal and external reaction to the situation as it develops.

Crawls

Yeah that makes sense.

Something other than the official line happened, but I don't think it was malicious.