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Whoever the Dominion dude was said there was no connectivity.
There is, however, the ability to turn on connectivity.
In one facet, a tech on site could enter the bios on turn on connectivity..
As far as remote access to bios is concerned, there are remote access cards available that can access all points of a boot up. So big question now is whether any machines have remote access cards installed. Thinking along the lines of HP ILO.
For BIOS you'd have to be able to watch the boot.
There are remote access units that allow you to do that. They're designed to boot up machines that have crashed or are turned off.
As I said above, I have some HP machines that have those units like that. HP ILO (Integrated lights Out)
Remote access is different. It's like an embedded small computer on the motherboard that can follow the progress of the physical computer.
The physical computer doesn't have network connectivity if it's turned off in BIOS., so wireless or Bluetooth isn't available.
The access card itself, however, is connected to the internet, but doesn't need network connectivity to the physical computer, since it's hard wired on the motherboard. A remote tech can watch the actual boot process of the physical machine, and enter the physical machine's bios to turn on connectivity, or anything else, for that matter.
You wouldn't need an on site tech, and no one physically present on site would know a machine was being manipulated if that machine's video was turned off until it hit the OS screen.
Would be why no on site people had the passwords., too big a fuck up risk.