I feel the need to type this out even though the odds of this being true are incredibly slim.
Russia is on the brink of a potential economic disaster, in part driven by America increasing oil production to Cold War levels (a tactic that was used to bancrupt the USSR).
There is also a need for a dramatic event to shift the focus away from the economy in the event that Christmas sales are too weak (i.e. the realization that the recovered economy and consumer confidence is a mirage).
Assuming the Dark Queen Senario is true, over the longer term NSA spying needs to be normalized and embraced while the growth of techology supressed. Technology is the greatest threat to the powers that be, within a short period of time people will realize its true potential. It makes all systems of control unnecessary and useless, while also freeing us from having to work. Once this awareness is wide spread it will be impossible to supress without an uprising, it must be stopped before that point.
This brings me to the speculation. The hacking of Sony, allegedly by software that looks North Korean combined, and terrorist bomb threat is ridiculous. The only reasonable conclusion is that it is NOT North Korean in source. The state is run by psychopaths, but they are not mentally ill. They do not have a death wish, especially over a dumb movie airing in a country that they firmly believe is 100% brain washed to begin with. No private citizen in love with Kim Jung Un would do it either, since that would result in him, his family, and his parents being worked to death in prison camps.
One possibility is that this is a set up for false flag terrorist attacks. The framing already done, and now a justification for both more NSA and a war in Asia will be created.
The way I see it is that if this actually exists as an option, that is all it is, nothing is set in stone. Every month something will be available for use so that when the time is right the system can be mobilized, or rather, when the time is wrong, they have a plan B already set up.
I think realistically though that this is just some elaborate prank involving people that hate Sony. There are plenty of reasons to hate Sony.