[Discuss] "The Manchurian Computer"?

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

So I am waiting for Linux to install on my new computer.  If I am 
successful, I will have a dual-boot machine, Windows 7 Professional and 
Ubuntu 12.04 (with full disk encryption). 

[Um, er, just realized I made a mistake in my partitioning: I did *full* 
disk encryption, including /boot, which means it won't boot.  Gotta do 
that again.]

Anyway, this is a Lenovo X230 smallish-book, fresh off the truck.  How 
many backdoors did Lenovo put in it?  How many is my Ubuntu install 
susceptible to?


-kb