Just judging but how artificially hyped this was, and how we know that large drops never get hyped up before hand (no hype on Cuomo resignation for example )… this smells like a bait.
They are probably trying to get the DS to do something stupid, or track what they were going to try to shut it down. Moves and countermoves.
I don't understand the fuss about BIOS passwords. I thought the entire security profile had been shown to be worthless? For example employees wrongly sharing client certificates which were not password encrypted. Why pick on BIOS passwords which are not the most egregious security problem in the whole thing?