Re: [qubes-users] Risk on secondhand equipment

2018-04-27 Thread brendan . hoar
On Friday, April 27, 2018 at 7:18:37 AM UTC-4, mstv...@gmail.com wrote: > Is a second-hand CPU safe? > Is second-hand RAM safe? Are second-hand keyboards safe? Second-hand mouses? Second-hand SSDs? Second-hand optical-drives? Second-hand power-management chips? Second-hand displays? Is any com

Re: [qubes-users] Risk on secondhand equipment

2018-04-27 Thread mstvrlks
The link refers basically to laptops. I was wondering if there are issues with second-hand desktop parts for the last couple of generations. Is a second-hand CPU safe? CPU vulnerabilities seem to be corrected with microcode updates applied to the motherboard BIOS or the OS, and not directly to

Re: [qubes-users] Risk on secondhand equipment

2016-06-02 Thread raahelps
On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 10:54:42 AM UTC-4, Andrew David Wong wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 2016-05-31 07:39, heqami...@runbox.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Do you see any problem while purchase on ebay computers or laptops > > secondhand? > > > > Thanks you

Re: [qubes-users] Risk on secondhand equipment

2016-05-31 Thread Andrew David Wong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2016-05-31 07:39, heqami...@runbox.com wrote: > Hi, > > Do you see any problem while purchase on ebay computers or laptops > secondhand? > > Thanks you > > H. > You can find a brief discussion about the pros and cons of buying a used compute

[qubes-users] Risk on secondhand equipment

2016-05-31 Thread heqami...@runbox.com
Hi, Do you see any problem while purchase on ebay computers or laptops secondhand? Thanks you H. -- 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+un