>>>>>You are right - it did not occur to me at the time. I shall consider doing so this coming weekend. Perhaps a good reason to make the move to Linux. The laptop is "beefy" enough; 8Gb RAM, 2.5Ghz CPU, Lenovo Thinkpad T520 model.
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>>>>There is some interesting reading if you Google [lenovo banned].
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>>>Interesting but not conclusive enough. Australia government denies it too. Lenovo does come preinstalled with various services running which call home to look for updates (bios, drivers, etc). I always switch all that off. But there could of course be far deeper, pre O/S backdoors. Who knows...
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>>Intel's vPro allows for any code injection over a network, wired or wireless. It monitors every keystroke, and using hyper-threading, injection of code to execute on the CPU is outside of any awareness by the OS or machine state.
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>Yes, I read about this - Joanna Rutkowska -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_%28software%29That one's different using virtualization. The vPro system works without installing anything on the machine.
