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LPBBEAR

(513 posts)
57. No
Sat Feb 1, 2025, 05:31 PM
Feb 1

It wouldn't be easy. If we're talking about employee workstations most IT departments use images of the employee workstations to speed up deployment. Those images include all the licensed software used by the employee, domain information, workstation IDs etc. That by itself takes a lot of time to get in place. If we're talking about the organizations servers that's even more complicated and time consuming. In most cases you can't just come in and "replace" hard drives without having the proper software drivers for the computer hardware and ALL the information needed to set up domains, firewalls usernames etc..

If they actually did do as this claims there had to be a fair amount of time spent pre-planning and preparing the whole operation. That would go back into the time period of the Biden administration. It can't be done in the less than 2 weeks Trump has been in office without total chaos resulting in IT functionality. You can't just walk into an IT server room and replace hard drives and expect it will work. Not without pre-planning and a lot of information about the organizations IT setup. That takes more than 2 weeks.

If there was pre-planning back far enough to make this possible, during the Biden administration, that would indicate collusion between Trump's people and people already working in those organizations. That is a breach of security and illegal since Trump wasn't in office at that time.

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Kick dalton99a Feb 1 #1
Thank you for posting that. I couldn't see her threads on my post so I tried to Autumn Feb 1 #9
Alt National Park Service 👍 dweller Feb 1 #11
That is a jazzy meme! Whoever wrote it is the Charlie Parker of memes. dchill Feb 1 #18
It's a great meme, but it started as a protest sign at the 2017 women's march, printed w/ black marker on cardboard. -nt CrispyQ Feb 1 #29
Nevertheless. dchill Feb 1 #31
What's to stop him from doing the same at the CIA, FBI, NSA, or Pentagon? newdeal2 Feb 1 #2
All they had to say: "Elon sent me. He's the new owner of the United States." dalton99a Feb 1 #6
Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, and Kash Patel will hand it all over to them IronLionZion Feb 1 #21
As Kruschev foretold. They (russkis) couldn't do it directly so they converted a bunch of US people erronis Feb 1 #40
Putin has not "defeated the US" from within whathehell Feb 1 #53
Agencies should stand their ground. Musk cannot just do whatever the fuck his apartheid heart tells him. GreenWave Feb 1 #3
Musk has no aithorization excepty Trump's unlike any other Department head or Secretary. KPN Feb 1 #35
yes it is possible ShepKat Feb 1 #4
I called and emailed my congressmen this AM. What else can we do to sound the alarm? Alice B. Feb 1 #5
I've done the same; called and emailed my congressional representative and both US Senators, all Republicans. sop Feb 1 #28
I've always kind of rolled my eyes at petitions and this kind of thing but now I think, when taken in aggregate, it has Alice B. Feb 1 #51
Kick SheltieLover Feb 1 #7
That is government property and not Musk's bronxiteforever Feb 1 #8
l'etat c'est moi DBoon Feb 1 #13
We need some "good" hackers on our side alarimer Feb 1 #10
I know... I was reminiscing wistfully about the Anonymous collective Mike 03 Feb 1 #27
Is there a difference between "installing" and "replacing"? n/t Igel Feb 1 #12
I have no idea. I'm not in IT but I'm thinking you have an opinion Autumn Feb 1 #14
Installing, I would guess, putting in something new that wasn't there before sakabatou Feb 1 #19
Both are correct. The real question is why are Musk's people doing this? bluesbassman Feb 1 #26
THIS x 1000 KPN Feb 1 #37
1+ Norrrm Feb 1 #15
Too bad our DOJ and FBI is already compromised, tanyev Feb 1 #16
They don't have security clearances Beck23 Feb 1 #17
and maybe Trump will be the last 'elected' President HipChick Feb 1 #22
K&R Bayard Feb 1 #20
Maybe they'll increase paychecks for certain crooked ones to keep them in line IronLionZion Feb 1 #23
K&R. dchill Feb 1 #24
They're stealing government data. The new drives will probabldy be encrypted to prevent knowing what's on them. patphil Feb 1 #25
Your question "what will the military do if ordered to kill US citizens" Autumn Feb 1 #30
Which is why it's so puzzling that so little was done. Kid Berwyn Feb 1 #33
Need you wonder? KPN Feb 1 #32
Sensitive data is encypted at rest.... getagrip_already Feb 1 #34
You think they don't have the encryption keys? druidity33 Feb 2 #61
So future history books will read Seinan Sensei Feb 1 #36
HOW IS THIS BEING ALLOWED?? Scrivener7 Feb 1 #38
I am worried! Smackdown2019 Feb 1 #39
They will sell the data to our nation's enemies. James48 Feb 1 #41
Including private corps, and outwards from there to every bad actor who can pony up a few $$$. nt eppur_se_muova Feb 1 #50
It's important to know canetoad Feb 1 #42
Is this confirmed? SARose Feb 1 #43
I asked ChatGPT and this is what it said. (seems to be unconfirmed) Quixote1818 Feb 1 #47
Who is going to confirm it? Trump? Musk? Republicans? Autumn Feb 1 #49
Is it time...? sfdennis1 Feb 1 #44
I think Trump will be too closely protected for any citizen Luigi Bozvotros Feb 1 #46
EM, not the Cheeto ;) sfdennis1 Feb 1 #48
Has Musk's team of tech frat boys taken over the IRS yet? Lonestarblue Feb 1 #45
Yes, because IRS is part of the Treasury Dept wishstar Feb 1 #54
As a mostly retired LPBBEAR Feb 1 #52
Would there be any reason for the hard drives to be repaced? Autumn Feb 1 #55
No LPBBEAR Feb 1 #57
I think these people have been working on this since well before the immunity Autumn Feb 1 #58
Illegal, but no one st the DOJ will prosecute. We are now a lawless government. Lonestarblue Feb 1 #56
Why the fuck is he not being charged? Dem4life1234 Feb 1 #59
who are these people working for him? Takket Feb 1 #60
That's just it. No one knows. They will only give their first names to avoid being "doxed" Autumn Feb 2 #62
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