Tinfoil Hat When Using PC Please

Saw this on the "The Register". "PC Phone Home!" 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/24/ibm_lenovo_spooks/

Now, that is very interesting.  The tin foil hat brigade will have a field day with this one.  Your software is using MS Windows hidden exits to send your data to the CIA, and your hardware is sending it simultanteously to Beijing.  Looks like Berlin should use Linux after all.