20-05-2014, 04:57 PM
You know my opinion, which is that it wouldn't require someone connected with a country's intelligence service to hack into anti-hijack software; but it would certainly take someone with a sufficiently powerful motive to kill 230 people, and/or the confidence that they wouldn't be discovered or would be protected, which does imply a certain degree of government collusion. And then your actors have to be sufficiently confident of their ability to misdirect the subsequent search. Also, who has the influence to rack 2 tons of potentially explosive lithium batteries on a commercial flight?
I still favor the "prevent the Iranian defection" scenario, but the folks that have looked into Freescale suggest that Freescale had a motive, namely acquiring (from a 20% to) a 100% interest in a particular patent that was shared between the company and the four Freescale employees that have gone missing on the flight. We'll have to keep a close eye on whether or not that patent turns into a huge profit center for Freescale, but I doubt that Freescale is in a position to misdirect the search efforts, or have a sufficient degree of government protection to risk it.
I still favor the "prevent the Iranian defection" scenario, but the folks that have looked into Freescale suggest that Freescale had a motive, namely acquiring (from a 20% to) a 100% interest in a particular patent that was shared between the company and the four Freescale employees that have gone missing on the flight. We'll have to keep a close eye on whether or not that patent turns into a huge profit center for Freescale, but I doubt that Freescale is in a position to misdirect the search efforts, or have a sufficient degree of government protection to risk it.