[thdrdt]

If they take the efford to alter the circuit they might as well place a camera somewhere else, listen to all your network traffic, install a (hardware) keylogger and what not.

I think you are taking this too far.

People who fear to be tracked buy a laptop in a random store and don't use a provided one.

[behringer]

What about company laptops,where you're much more likely to be targeted based on your job, not your personality.

Snowden already showed us the depths that governments will go to, to compromise their victims with hardware swaps and worse. And it's already been 7 years. They're even better at it now.