This is great, I love the idea of building a complete laptop from the ground up to dispel all the &quot;magic&quot; that goes on inside a manufacturer built consumer model.<p>Hypothetically speaking, if I was a super-paranoid type who wanted to build my own laptop from scratch so that I trusted every component installed, how would I go about verifying the CPU &#x2F; SOC was not a threat?<p>I guess I&#x27;m asking if there&#x27;s anything equivalent to an MD5 checksum for hardware?<p>It seems that backdoors are being discovered in parts as esoteric as hard drive controller firmware, so I&#x27;m wondering if it&#x27;s practical to believe I could build a personal computing device that is trustworthy.