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@anemone yeah it’s more of a thing you do when you’re LARPing corporate IT stuff

if i were in that position i would not trust the majority of laptops in the first place. if i had to own and use a personal computer regularly, i’d try to go full paranoia, carefully source risc-v and possibly work with close contacts to design a custom motherboard (might even pull it off). very limited options for radio as well.

speaking of potential off-the-shelf backdoors and sidechannels: thinkpads also have very poor electrical design. they leak a lot over power supply (including noises due to physical vibration, possibly LED PWM clock stability, speaker noise, all the ports, LCD isn’t shielded well enough to suppress RF leakage etc.)… again, worse than the cheap old asus laptop.