The thing that really gets me is that the super rich don't have some kinda exclusive secretive company for high-end managed IT shit, and they just go to any fucking Best Buy for service and hire unvetted reddit plebs to run their Exchange servers.
I honestly gotta wonder how a company like that would even work.
I mean, really. First of the real reason is just "they're out of touch looneys that think computers are millenial black magic", but even if they didn't think that.
Such a company would be an issue in itself. Archive sites get hacked all the time, and that's before we take into account simple human nature: if the employees are doing it for the money. What's to keep them from being the ones to steal the data? And if they aren't even worse! As that saying went, if you have a gun pointed at you, pray that the one wielding it isn't a good man. A greedy employee may try to just blackmail you, an honorable employee will take the data and leak it based on principles.
So lets say you're some big guy that just got a broken computer with very much sensitive information. What's the safest way to deal with the computer? Easy: you just need a system by which your business leaves broken computers on a desk to get sent to fix. Make sure to have some kinda code so when its yours no one knows it. (Put it under a fake name and room). Then when your computer breaks you can dump your intel into an external drive, factory reset the computer, and dump it for an intern to carry it to get fixed.
And that's it. So long as no one figures out your code the intern's gonna think it's some random computer from the biz, the IT guy will only see a clean computer and so you can safely wait until the fake name gets warned that its back and retrieve it. All you have to do is NOT actively fuck it up.
And even if someone figures out your code, they're gonna be waiting until your laptop breaks, which can take a while, so as long as you change it every once in a while you'd be relatively safe. Only other eventuality would be if the IT guy took the time to search for the destroyed data, which is a long and complex process, and then realices what said data is despite thinking the computer is from a randy, which is unlikely. So basically unless you got something like CP that would immediately send the alarms blaring you're safe. And if you have CP first of all kill yourself, secondly just use a blowtorch and buy a new computer, really. 'Cause that's the only method even safer than this.
Now compare this method, which requires extreme espionage shit or bad luck to break with the amount of risks involved in having the laptop taken by some super secret spy agency. And the second option is orders of magnitude more expensive too. Why the fuck would anyone choose that?!
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FBI has had the laptop for over a year already and didn't say anything. Remember when Trump got impeached for congratulating the new President of the Ukraine?
