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One of my old bosses thought that all Lenovos possessed BIOS-level malware that could be activated at a moment's notice by the Chinese government should the US ever got to war with them.

He was a weird dude.

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I had a boss that thought the same thing. He shut up when we showed him an IBM branded ThinkPad with a "Made in China" sticker, but the new Lenovo branded ThinkPad had a "Made in Singapore" sticker.

That's JSUT what they want you to think!

Would coreboot reassure the gentleman? Or would that be dismissed as an anarchist conspiracy?

Seriously: are there any laptops/PCs still manufactured within the national borders of the US?

I remain unconvinced that anything would assuage his paranoia, unfortunately.

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