From: whit3rd@gmail.com   
      
   Testing for 'altered in any way' will catch cosmic ray tracks, t   
   mperature/pressure changes,   
   and half a thousand other irrelevancies.   It will likely miss a bugging   
   device that is powered by   
   beamed microwaves.   
      
   What CAN work, is a standard, generic hardware base with a firmware    
   personality; a multiplicity   
   of signatures can be applied to the firmware, and a one-time-buy of hardware   
   can be   
   carefully scrutinized.   Even so, I've seen systems where it was ALL working,   
   but (because   
   of a failing hard drive) some timings were WAY off; the hard drive wasn't   
   going to admit   
   failure until it couldn't succeed-after-retry.   The problem of hidden   
   firmware (like inside that   
   traitorous hard drive) has become endemic, in modern devices.   
      
   They're too smart.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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