On 13/07/15 14:41, Man_Without_Clue wrote:
Chinese made.
How can you trust that?
Just about every piece of consumer (and quite a lot of not-so-consumer)
electronics on the market probably contains *some* non-volatile storage
components manufactured in a facility whose management are potentially
willing to cooperate with one or more intelligence agencies (or even
lesser entities such as, say, the local equivalent of the Mafia) whose
interests may be inimical to yours.
More realistically, the question one has to ask is not the absolute "can
I trust this equipment?" (to which the answer is always "no" unless
you've, say, immersed it in a few dozen gallons of aqua regia or heated
it past the Curie point of any magnetic storage platters inside it), but
the relative "can I trust this equipment *enough* to be able to use it
for my intended purposes without exposing myself to unacceptable levels
of risk?".
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