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_2nnf··on Make your electronics tamper-evident
I made a joke online that I had access to the e-mails from the ministry of justice and that I would publish all of them wikileaks style (This was back in the 2011s, 2012s era). I had indeed found a security issue but the e-mail stuff was a joke, but due to many other factors it was more than believable.

They even came to arrest me a few month later, I am not making this stuff up!

But the whole story is very crazy, I should write a complete blog post on it and what their shady techniques are.

_2nnf··on Make your electronics tamper-evident
Happy to see this, because this is how they (Law enforcement / intelligence agencies) do it nowadays.

Many years ago law enforcement (french DCRI now called DGSI) illegally placed a keylogger on my laptop, they placed it when I bought it online from materiel.net and placed it before I took delivery of it. it is 100% certain in my mind.

So never ever buy a laptop or hardware online if you think you might be exposed to this, buy it from a store.

I was going to build a hardware keylogger for laptops just for fun and as a proof-of-concept to show how easily this could be done.