It’s not likely that the NSA would do that to every laptop a vendor ships outside the US, because it would increase the risk of their tools being compromised fo

It’s not likely that the NSA would do that to every laptop a vendor ships outside the US, because it would increase the risk of their tools being compromised for no benefit. Hardware intercept would only be used if someone they were already interested in happened to order a laptop from the United States, and the risk/reward ratio supported bugging the laptop. The NSA has already had a whole cache of tools get out in the open, and they wouldn’t want that to happen again. The thing about so-called cyber weapons is that they get weaker every time you use them...