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Conjecture...

Perhaps you've heard of it?

I'll not enter into a hypothetical conversation at this point without evidence to support your suppositions, as it's far too easy to flip your speculations around and spin it into a position which supports my own views while failing to actually address the heart of the matter at hand.

"Conjecture....I'll not enter into a hypothetical conversation"

Too late! Remember writing this?

"This case appears to be a vindictive act by a former employer"

I was simply responding to _your_ conjecture with an alternative set of conjecture. My point, which you failed to address, was that neither set of conjecture has been shown to be actual, only possible.

What we actually know is that somebody in the family searched for "pressure cooker bomb" from their former employer's computer, and that the former employer contacted police. We don't know if there was malice on anyone's part. We have no particular reason to suspect involvement by the NSA, the FBI, the KGB, 4chan/b/, or any other group beyond the family, the former employer, and two reasonably local law enforcement agencies.

Well put, regarding my own conjecture.

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