Purism’s anti-interdiction services have become popular with those that are concerned their laptops may be tampered with during shipping.
Several years ago, it was revealed that the US National Security Agency (NSA) will sometimes intercept networking gear during shipping in order to modify it to provide backdoor access to the hardware. To get around this, one company has devised a clever hack to ensure that its laptops arrive to customers without being tampered with.
Just six months ago, the social purpose company Purism decided to formalize its anti-interdiction services so that they appeared as a drop-down choice as opposed to being a “hidden menu item” that was difficult to find. The laptop and smartphone maker is one of if not the only hardware vendor that offers a complete suite of custom anti-interdiction measures to prevent its devices from being tampered with during shipping.
What exactly are these anti-interdiction measures? Well for starters, Purism applies glitter nail polish to all of the screws on the bottom of its Librem 13 and Librem 15 laptops so that users will know if someone took the device apart after it was shipped.
