Trojan Horses?

I had a wonderful Christmas.  I hope you did too.  One of the things I received from my Father-In-Law was a cheap mouse made to look like a sports car.  It even has head lights that glow.  Zoom zoom!  Anyway,  I was about to put a battery in it an plug it up when I noticed the familar CE symbol on the packaging.  Made in China. hmmm...   Do I really want to attach this to my laptop or my work PC?   Not unless I want the APT capturing my key strokes.  Paranoid?  Maybe..  but after finding out that the NSA is doing a shipping man in the middle with routers and laptops,  maybe less so.

Unfortunately or fortunately, the NSA is driving us all to a more secure Internet.  Encryption will be de rigueur.  Really all that leaves is the hacked hardware peripheral as an option.  Perhaps the safest thing is to build my own computer with a CPU that I purchase at a physical store completely at random. 

I'm just saying that's all...