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		manishsharan on April 18, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Huawei, Failing to Crack U.S. Market, Signals a Ch... QQ: If I were to wipe a Huawei latptop and install Ubuntu, is my device still vulnerable to malicious rootkts etc. what if I swapped out the harddrive. The Matebook X looks very tempting . and someone has already got this work to with Debian https://github.com/lidel/linux-on-huawei-matebook-x-2017

Lionsion on April 18, 2018 [–]

> If I were to wipe a Huawei latptop and install Ubuntu, is my device still vulnerable to malicious rootkts etc. what if I swapped out the harddrive.

If the rootkit is in the firmware or BIOS, you'd still be vulnerable.

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