As I am on Social Security and can not afford to purchase the Insurgo 
Privacy Beast, I was trying to emulate what the Insurgo on my own.  

I bought a refurb Lenovo X-230 with I5 processor and 4 GB RAM, 340 GB 
Spinning hard drive.  I have upgraded the RAM to 16 GB, (MICRON 
CT2K102464BF186D 16GB KIT 8GBX2 PC3-14900 1866, which is marked as Crucial 
- Germany)  Laptop sees the RAM, Boots, I have not run extensive memory 
tests.

And the same WiFi adapter as Insurgo Privacy Beast uses:   (Atheros AR9832 
AR5BHB116. Model: AR9832 AR5BHB116. 1 x Atheros AR9832 AR5BHB116 Wireless 
Card. Standard Wireless: 801.11 a/b/g/n. Russia,Brazil,Chile,New 
Zealand,Mexico,South Africa,Asia)

I am now looking for a plan to EE-PROM (flash core boot) onto it.  I bought 
a PROM  Organizer SOIC8 SOP8 Flash Chip IC Test Clips Socket Adpter 
Programmer BIOS + CH341A 24 25 Series EEPROM Flash BIOS USB Programmer 
Module (Double Cl 
<https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07R5LPTYM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1>

I now read I will need a Pomona Clip:    Test Clip SOIC8 Pomona 5250.

Which will have to wait until next month to afford.  However, I see the 
instructions of what of I am about to attempt to be very detailed, and I am 
looking for about of guidance from someone who has recently done this 
thing.  

What looks to be one of my sources of a check list is:  
https://www.chucknemeth.com/flash-lenovo-x230-coreboot/

Then what I can find on git hub.   I had hoped to install both Core Boot 
and Heads, and I am not sure if that is so easy for someone like me.  

I have not read all that yet, but wanted to be clear on the possible 
upgrades, fixes to documentation that should have occurred.  I am supposing 
that I will need to be careful choose the correct script for a core I5.  

Truthfully this EE-PROM of Core Boot is more than I wanted to learn how to 
do.  All this makes me appreciate how much Insurgo does to get their 
version working.  

Anyway, I thought I would see if anyone has any recent experience with this 
that might be different than all the documentation that is already 
available.   Thanks for any replies.


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