On Sunday, August 18, 2019 at 11:20:26 AM UTC-7, ljul...@gmail.com wrote: > > So like companies that sell laptops bought in bulk should be a little bit > safer than laptops sold by individuals on sites like Craigslist since those > companies buy the laptops from other businesses which most likely only used > those laptops for business purposes and not like for Tor stuff, right?
At least on craigslist you know who was using it before I don't think you are safer with an unknown source. As others have said, new stuff has vulnerabilities. Various totalitarian dictaorships have full time agencies working on ways to hack the Intell and amd chips, compromise Tor, you name it. A used older laptop from a private individual presents a different risk profile granted but I don't know that it is any better or worse than new or bulk vendor sourcing. Just be sure to wipe the hard drive, overwriting all nodes, using Bleach Bit etc and from what I gather, flash the bios with an open source bios...assume everything is pawned. Everything... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/a6eb8da7-9ddd-4397-9d1b-46c22194c1b2%40googlegroups.com.
