IT people are simultaneously lazy and productive. Anyone worth a shit would create a system image. Also, any formally trained IT pro follows the mantra of “less over more,” as well as “idiot proof for security.” None of these fall in line with what is being seen on the machines. Manual mass installs, too much software, poor security. These things were built expressly to be tampered with.
Yeah, good IT guys are both lazy and productive. It is a strong possibility that they didn't have good IT guys, i.e. they hired liberally from the H1B pool and now they're full of streetshitters. The next question is whether that choice was made maliciously or ineptly.
Don't get me wrong, I think they're still guilty of something. I just like to work out all of the possible arguments before they do so they can't weasel out of it. I.E. they may have had no idea that voter fraud was happening; they may have just been told to set up the systems this way then an outside party used the security holes to do the exploiting. We still don't know the full picture, so all we can do is keep pulling threads and see what they unravel.
Nobody is lazier and less productive than H1Bs. Getting them to even install necessary software is a nightmare.
The default install for some SQL Server installs includes SSMS by default, don't they?
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