It has everything to do with him being a hypocrite.

What possible reason would literally millions of people have for disliking Elon?

Elon has been doing a fine job at burning his own reputation down. He certainly doesn’t need any help from the rest of us in doing so.

That’s what she said.

Servers weren’t much of a problem, they’re mostly virtual and could be just restored from a backup. The several hundred workstations were a problem. They needed a physical touch. All are encrypted with BitLocker, requiring passkeys stored in AD. Over half are laptops. Most of those don’t have wired ethernet ports, and an account with local admin rights hasn’t logged in since the day they were imaged. Throw in a proper LAPS config, where randomly generated passwords of three dozen characters in length are also stored in AD…

… Yeah, today was a bad day.

“Would no one rid me of this troublesome priest?”

They need to do a shit ton more than just hint.

Cook’s lack of respect for people and his total disregard of the consequences of his actions is what caused this situation, not paranoia and heavy armament.