On Thursday, September 7, 2017 at 9:27:35 AM UTC-4, cooloutac wrote: > On Friday, September 1, 2017 at 10:46:04 AM UTC-4, James Miller wrote: > > For those that run Qubes on an off the shelf computer, did you go through > > any special steps to insure the hardware was clean after you purchased, but > > before you installed qubes? I'm about to buy new hardware for my > > installation and I'm thinking of all the places in the purchase chain where > > a laptop could be compromised. Does anyone have advise on how to not become > > the one in a million person to get a laptop with compromised hardware? For > > example: > > Do I need to replace any parts just in case? > > Do I need to buy in person or directly from the manufacturer on line? > > I would literally get it off the shelf somewhere. Examine the box to make > sure its not used before buying. Thats what I do. > > I hate buying stuff from Amazon or Newegg, cause half the time its used, > opened in shipment. UPS is very corrupt. Some of them are also crazy and > play soccer with your packages. > > One way to determine if its fresha and clean when buying some parts, is they > come with stickers. Gpu, CPU, MObo, and memory sticks always come with > manufacturers stickers to put on the case. IF the sticker is not in there, > its used. > > For example I just ordered some more g.skill ram, The original ram I bought > from microcenter had the sticker. The same exact ram I got from newegg, > didn't. Now I don't think ram has firmware to be comrpromised? who knows. > also its a liftime warranty so I wasn't too upset. But these are things to > look for.
Every single manufacturer I've ever bought puts a sticker in the box. So if you buy something and didn't get one. Its used period, no matter what you are telling yourself. -- 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 post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/7310274b-0de5-418b-aae1-a5511071362b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
