Measures could be put in place, like installing the OS only when it arrives from the Chinese construction site or shipping pre-installed SSDs with Bitlocker enabled (with unique keys per customer) so that the drives cannot be tampered with unnoticed.
In practice, I've never heard of companies actually investing in these checks. There are a few "assembled in the USA" products that probably flash their install image outside China, but who says the American intelligence agencies in turn won't tamper with those? They've done it before, after all.
I'm a little surprised there aren't any viable open source programs for what is essentially a precise plotter with a complicated plot head. A bunch of plants could work together to construct a system free of vendor lock-in and expensive replacement parts if they would just work together.
In practice, I've never heard of companies actually investing in these checks. There are a few "assembled in the USA" products that probably flash their install image outside China, but who says the American intelligence agencies in turn won't tamper with those? They've done it before, after all.
I'm a little surprised there aren't any viable open source programs for what is essentially a precise plotter with a complicated plot head. A bunch of plants could work together to construct a system free of vendor lock-in and expensive replacement parts if they would just work together.