Was my laptop tampered with during shipping?

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Just FYI to the OP, and others: they have recently found exploits in the wild (more than just talks) of writing to special persistent memory in the BIOS that remains even after a BIOS flash.

http://infozonic.com/2018/09/28/lojax-first-uefi-rootkit-found-in-the-wild-courtesy-of-the-sednit-group/

I recently posted a topic to Purism to see if these machines are open to the same attack.

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