How can you say that a list of IP addresses is meaningless without investigating who was behind them? There can be a lot of information there.

The idea that someone would set up some kind of hacker convention and offer a reward for hundreds of experts to parse through random fake data that they intentionally created sounds beyond insane. It's just not believable. If that's where we're at, I might as well believe the majority of conspiracy theories which are less far-fetched than this one.