I've watched every bit of the Symposium thus far, and have some thoughts on the subject. Interested in others' thoughts as well....
This whole thing depends on the authenticity of the pcap data. What we've really seen so far is that there are lots of mathematical models that are arrived at through different processes and all arrive at a similar conclusion. That is, various mathematical models can all predict the election outcomes in various states/counties. Said another way, the machine algorithm could be written from scratch and come up with the same results.
However, the smoking gun is the hard evidence - the packet capture data. That shows what did happen and what was altered. The rest of the discussions are essentially deriving the code that alter the actual results.
Also, the pcap data source is the one thing Mike Lindell will not disclose. This is the really, really important part. IMO, this data came from the US military from the captured equipment in Germany. The equipment was the router for the aggregation system.
For those that don't know, a router can be used to decrypt encrypted packets from any machine(s) within its LAN (local network). So control of the router is critical. If you work for a business that can block any connection via https to a website and keep you from using a machine to visit that site, it's doing so by decrypting the local network traffic, understanding what site you're trying to visit, and then using rules to determine whether or not you're allowed to visit that site. Open source tools, like a squid reverse proxy, can illustrate this (ie, if you have control of your router and can run open source tools, you can do this yourself...)
So the biggest reveal in this symposium is probably the data source. Why would they give it to Lindell? I don't know. But the authenticity of that data can definitively prove that this election is stolen, while all of the other discussions revolve around how the data was changed. They are converging on a piece of code that could be set up to mimic exactly what happened and how - if you have the data set collected by the router, you can define how the code is changed on the mainframe. I don't see another means of collecting such a large data set from so many machines - it has to be at an aggregation point. Another such point could be across some node(s) monitored by the NSA, I suppose.
Thoughts?
I'm just assuming it was encrypted data. Like I stated above, it could just be - as you've stated - laziness... And yes, I'm assuming behind a VPN. Maybe none of that is true, however.