Resetting An Operating System To A Drastically Different Earlier Version

Criminals and their associates have often be suggesting they need to reset technology to an earlier version of its operating system, especially when that operating system was coded under drastically different conditions / with preconceptions that drastically vary from actual facts. One of the reasons these requests are made, is so that criminals or their associates can issue commands that would not be obeyed, given enhanced and more complete knowledge of reality.