Any program needs a backport to communicate; example: updates, antivirus,
etc, etc. The best mute pc is the one, that has no connection to any source
of, such as the web browser, nickcards, WiFi, bluetooth. etc. and it is just
for data entry, nothing more. That is the only way too defeat spying and
backport activity. We call them "dumb terminal."
If you are talking about controlling, the backports either hardware or
software, I hope you are that you good in reading binary code, able to modify
and examine, It all starts, in the Bios firmware, harware, Processor and
communication devices. Some technologies that allows you to format bios
architecture, could be used in some old motherboards not all of them. I
haven't heard of anyone formatting any processor, yet but to add hardware
firewalls is another issue.
This is just my opinion.