[nooneelse]

So perhaps someone should enable a layer of plausible deniability in the form of a program which makes it look like your machine(s) has been compromised and controlled for a long time now.

[redthrowaway]

You could just buy a Trojan and infect yourself with it, setting the C&C to send out email spam or something similarly (relatively) innocuous.

Still, if you're at the point where they have your laptop and have you fingered, the "plausible" aspect of plausible deniability is likely diminished.