Dear Purism
A) Thank you for existing - it was a bad time a company like yours focused on the privacy rights of individuals in this Orwellian nightmare saw the day of light!!!
B) In view of the revelations by Edward Snowden (a true American HERO !!!) about the NSA intercepting the hardware shipments to install spyware on a regular and routine bases, is there a way of ensuring that these concerns are addressed?
C) I personally, being a non US citizen( not that being a US citizen guarantees any privacy, right or liberties in this day and age) feel pretty uncomfortable ordering an international shipment of a GREAT and rather expensive product that lands itself as a natural target for the NSA snoops.
the only two ways that I would feel comfortable is
- ordering your notebook locally to a US citizen and than having it hand delivered by someone I know. (relying on the legal protections and limitations in the US constitution on the surveillance of the US citizens)
— pretty difficult and complicated in terms of logistics - Picking up the laptop from the source - your physical store.
impossible since you do not have a physical store – but also optimal as buying something in a store owned by you would serve as an ultimate guarantee of the integrity of the hardware
Lets brainstorm to address these very real issues!
What are your ideas on how to resolve the hardware integrity upon international and perhaps national shipments?
Ref:
NSA Tampering with hardware
-https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald-nsa-tampers-us-internet-routers-snowden
Also google articles:
NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to install spy malware
NSA TAO Intercepting packages
this just proves how desperate and disinformed we really are. it also shows we have good intentions but in this day and age those good intentions are simply not enough.