This may just be paranoia on my part, but wouldn't being a target of industrial espionage by the Chinese make you already important/big enough to have the NSA working for rather than against you?
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I don't think so.
How likely is it that China spying on you will actually impact your life, if you're living somewhere in the US or Europe?
Compare this to How likely is it that the US spying on you will actually impact your life, if you're living somewhere in the US or Europe...
I mean sure, this may be a relevant consideration for actual terrorists, but hardly for "regular" people that are more concerned about mundane details like their unhealthy dietary habbits being leaked to insurance companies, or their downloading of youtube videos being leaked to copyright holders.
How exactly did you do this? Obviously the company assembling the pieces (like CPUs and chipsets) into the final PC isn't really the issue, but rather the companies producing those pieces - and virtually none of them are outside the US, seeing as how there's only Intel (and maybe AMD).
Your idea sounds good, and I'd like to adopt it, but I just don't see how, with x86 hardware.
Then again, maybe this'll be a major selling point for ARM-based Servers and Desktops at some point in the future? :x