• adarza@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    that’s potentially very dangerous–taking a laptop you do not know the history of or what may be hidden in metadata or unused sectors of the internal storage.

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      2 months ago

      I suppose in that sense, getting any used laptop is always risky. You could pull the hard drive and run some kind of USB live distro.

      I suppose they could try to say you had something illegal in the firmware / BIOS. Like ascii stick figure CSAM? 🤷