Originally Posted by
samusual2000
A few months later the state police dropped off my laptop and my SD cards etc off at my dads house, there was not contraband on it, obviously.
I can't speak directly to your question, but I can tell you one thing... I would trust none of that gear. I would plug those SD cards into nothing. Just throw them away unless there is sensitive data on them. In that case, Boot-And-Nuke them, then throw them away. I would rebuild the laptop drive from scratch only after running Boot-And-Nuke on it -- don't even trust the boot sectors and don't boot it in its current state connected to your home network. In fact, scratch that. Sell the laptop. Boot-And-Nuke can get rid of any software, but hardware may have been installed in it.