I am travelling in China with a laptop which I mostly wiped clean for the trip (no personal information, no saved passwords, different ssh keys than I normally use). On returning to my room today I found it wouldn't start up, responding that it could not find the boot device (an SSD on SATA/0).
I've had no problems with the SSD before this.
Bizarrely, unplugging the power supply brought it back.
I don't have my toolkit with me so taking it apart is not optimal, am wondering if there's any way to tell (or even hint at) if it was compromised.
While it will be annoying I can avoid logging into email if necessary as I'm only here for a few more days.
I have ubuntu 10.10 installed as well as Windows 7, the laptop is a Lenovo x61.
