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minus-squareadarza@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down1·8 days agothat’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.
minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·8 days agoEverything is potentially dangerous. US Citizens have been deported
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·7 days agoI 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? 🤷
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.
Everything is potentially dangerous. US Citizens have been deported
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? 🤷