Re: [Trisquel-users] "Million dollar" question concerning the hardware we use

[chris]

I'd read that article with a bit of skepticism. While it points out issues  
that we really should be concerned about 3g being integrated in the CPU is  
not realistic. It would almost certainly be easy to detect. More than likely  
the article is written by someone who doesn't understand the technology or  
was trying to put things together in such a way that it was scary. It's scary  
although more because we don't have all the info about the technology in  
question rather than there actually being some unknown 3g chip inside every  
CPU. This technology almost certainly has to work alongside a 3g mini card  
and there would probably have to be other support on the system as well.  
However that isn't to say some of the technology doesn't exist in every  
system at some level. It would probably be trivial (given the amount of money  
governments have) to have Intel implement the system such that it  
communicates whenever there was an Internet presence detected.