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by mcdougle 4550 days ago
reimage it again when you get home?

edit: To those below: True. I thought about hardware after I posted; didn't even think about the BIOS thing but that's a great point.

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Re-imaging your hard drive will not help with BIOS malware. Re-installing the BIOS yourself may help.

Your data should stay at home and a VPN connection to your home PC would be a good first step.

Is there a reliable backup utility for your BIOS? I've come across this, but don't know how to judge it's viability.
Hardware keylogger.
That autonomously phones home so they don't even have to borrow your laptop next time you fly in order to dump the data.